Memento Morbid
Memento Morbid
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Fascinating, poignant, and surprisingly life-affirming conversations about death, the human condition, and life’s great mysteries.
Join Joanna Ebenstein, founder of Morbid Anatomy, for Memento Morbid, a series of surprisingly life-affirming conversations around topics that tend to be deemed morbid. Meet a wide range of fascinating individuals including death workers, artists, New York Times bestselling authors, a practicing witch, Hollywood actors, and a former crematorium worker- all exploring the rituals, stories, and delightfully strange ways humans confront the unknowable. Each episode is curious, insightful, and often striking, revealing the beauty, humor, and meaning we can find in life by confronting death head on.
📢Listeners! You are invited to share your own offerings: voice notes on death, dying, ritual and the beauty of finitude. Include your first name and location if you want them shared- you might be featured in an upcoming episode. Send your offering via WhatsApp to +44 2921 690468.
💀 Memento Morbid is produced by Overcoat Media in partnership with Morbid Anatomy.
Host: Joanna Ebenstein
Series Producer: Jess Gunasekara
Studio Engineer: Fernando Velazco Vargas
Additional Production and Sound Design: Katie Hill
Production Coordinator: Janice Jardine
Executive Producer: Steven Rajam
Artwork: Lauren Seeley
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Recent Episodes
8: Jeffrey Kripal- Mysticism, Sex, and the Impossible
Is Reality Stranger Than We’re Willing to Admit? Religious scholar and author Jeffrey J. Kripal joins Joanna Ebenstein for an engrossing conversation exploring mysticism, sexuality, death, and the…
7: ‘Impossible Bodies’ - Asti Hustvedt
In this episode of Memento Morbid, Joanna Ebenstein speaks with independent scholar, historian, and author Asti Hustvedt about hysteria, gender, spiritualism, and the uneasy territory where medicine…
6: ‘I've never not known death’ - John Troyer
What happens when a lifetime spent studying death collides with personal loss?Death scholar, writer, and educator John Troyer joins Joanna Ebenstein for a conversation about mortality, grief, funeral…
5: ‘Darkness is Healthy and Holy’ - Pam Grossman
What happens when we recognise creativity as a form of magic?Writer, curator, and cultural critic Pam Grossman joins Joanna Ebenstein for a conversation about witchcraft, creativity, death, and the…
4: ‘Death isn’t a problem to fix’ - Oliver Burkeman
What does it mean to live well, knowing our time is finite?Author Oliver Burkeman joins Joanna Ebenstein for a conversation about time, mortality, and what it means to live well inside finite…
3: 'Grave Dirt & Mud Pies' - Leila Taylor
Grave dirt makes the best mud pies… Leila Taylor, writer, designer, cultural critic and Creative Director of Brooklyn Public Library, joins Joanna Ebenstein for a rich, wide-ranging conversation…
2: 'I'm a Monster Now'- Paul Giamatti
What Does It Mean to Become Someone Else?Award-winning actor and producer Paul Giamatti joins Joanna Ebenstein for a wide-ranging, eerie, and often amusing conversation about monsters, performance,…
1: 'Corpse Girl' - Caitlin Doughty
What Happens to a Body After Death?Mortician, author and death care reformer Caitlin Doughty joins Joanna Ebenstein for a candid, curious and surprisingly funny conversation about what really happens…
Welcome to Memento Morbid….
Memento MorbidFascinating, poignant, and surprisingly life-affirming conversations about death, the human condition, and life’s great mysteries.Join Joanna Ebenstein, founder of Morbid Anatomy, for…
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Memento Morbid has published 9 episodes since April 2026, covering topics in Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality.
Memento Morbid is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 48m.
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