A short lecture excerpt by David Kessler emphasizing the importance of grieving well — "Those who grieve well live well, and those who grieve well die well" — followed by a personal anecdote from a radio show where a host reacted unexpectedly positively to reading about death and dying.
Those who grieve well live well, and those who grieve well die well. And it's so interesting for me to see people's reaction around death and dying.
I can think of a few things. I was recently doing a radio show, and there was a glass partition between myself and the host. And during one of the breaks, I started to say something to her, and I realized she couldn't hear me. But then I realized I could hear her and she didn't know it. And she said to her engineer on a break, I can't believe I had to spend my weekend reading a book on death and dying. But she said, I have to tell you, I was surprised. It was actually inspiring. And then she said, and this guy, he's actually got a personality. Now, she didn't even say, he's got a good personality. The achievement was that I had a personality.
