WDWS | Death, from the voice of 24-30yr olds

I sought to discover the value of death to the human condition. Given the restraint of COVID-19, I had a small participation pool. However, the results are interesting.

Each interview brought valuable insight that helped define the human condition, which I believe is sustainable through culture, lived experience, trauma, and how someone identifies with freedom.

Between each participant, the value of death was defined by their legacy – what are they leaving behind and to whom will that matter to? This ties neatly with the common tension: how can someone truly be free if they never get a chance to live (under the rule of capitalism)?

Naturally, we began as nomadic creatures, and since then we've crafted boxes for ourselves, safety nets, borders, and generalized frameworks for living. It is my hope that you've taken away from this the value of your life. That you don't live for the sake of dying, but for the liberation death provokes.

Books read for the preparation of these questions:

Very little-- almost nothing : death, philosophy, literature / Simon Critchley
Death in the secular city : life after death in contemporary theology and philosophy / Russell Aldwinckle
Madness and death in philosophy / Ferit Güven
A good death : on the value of death and dying / Lars Sandman
Reasons to stay alive / Matt Haig