Ep.30 On Grief and Loss 🫙 | A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir 📖

最後竟然要好似 Wicked 咁分 part 1 & 2 - 呢集主要講 Simone de Beauvoir 既 A Very Easy Death 📖 下一集會講宮崎駿既「蒼鷺與少年」(The Boy and the Heron) and the book that inspired the film: 吉野源三郎既《你想活出怎樣的人生？》(How Do You Live?)

“The knowledge that because of her age my mother’s life must soon come to an end did not lessen the horrible surprise: she had sarcoma. Cancer, thrombosis, pneumonia: it is as violent and unforeseen as an engine stopping in mid-flight.”

(00:22) intro: time and memory - interstellar / time shelter / eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

- “the past settles into afternoons” 🐈

(05:52) grief and loss: “grief doesn’t happen in a vacuum” / (09:36) a very easy death by simone de beauvoir / (12:30) parallels with being mortal / (16:18) the (good) doctor’s role/ (21:26) “an upper class death” / (23:28) “she was of an age to die” / (25:42) the rest is confetti - the haunting of hill house

Tracklist:

好好 (想把你寫成一首歌) by Mayday / The Boy and the Heron (Original Soundtrack) by Joe Hisaishi / Robot Dreams (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Alfonso de Vilallonga / "When the city sleeps, the stars come alive" Playlist by Shinki Uta

Links:

TED Talk: Nora McInerny - We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it (https://youtu.be/khkJkR-ipfw?si=JFc4N7LTZXoeZ-Fe)

Letters Live: Benedict reads Nick Cave's letter about grief (https://youtu.be/lMsqmYncEfg?si=eboeU4ZUj2Ui3Hw3)