46: Living Well and Dying Well with Joanna Ebenstein

Welcome to The Violet Vulture!

This season is entitled Penning the Dark. The formula is simple: me + guest who's written horror or about death, dying, the occult, or the obscure.

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Joanna Ebenstein (she/her)!

Joanna Ebenstein is the founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. An internationally recognized death expert, she is the author of several books, including Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy, Death: A Graveside Companion, and The Anatomical Venus. She is also an award-winning curator, photographer, and graphic designer, and the teacher of the many times sold-out class Make Your Own Memento Mori: Befriending Death with Art, History and the Imagination. The descendant of holocaust survivors, she traces her lineage back to Judah Loew ben Bezalel, credited with creating the Golem in sixteenth-century Prague.

We chatted about the following and then some:

• Her most recent book, Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life,
• The many lives Morbid Anatomy has lived over the years,
• The timelessness of using art to explore personal and collective attitudes towards death across cultures,
• Joanna's personal attitudes towards and relationship with death, and more.

If you've ever wondered how thinking of death can enrich your life, this one is for you.

Joanna's website.

Morbid Anatomy's website.

Joanna's Instagram.

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