Lecture on death

What will you learn during the episode?

• Why we push death and mourning to the margins of our lives and what consequences this has
• The meaning of death and related rituals in different societies and cultures
• How our relationship with dying, death, and burial has changed over time
• How to better cope with the death of loved ones… and your own

Who is the guest?

Jaroslav Šejvl

Jaroslav Šejvl worked as a homicide investigator in the 1st department and at the National Drug Control Centre. He is a lecturer and research assistant at the Center for Addictology at the Psychiatric Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague. He was the head of Olšany Cemeteries and chairman of the gravediggers’ guild. He has authored numerous publications in the fields of addictology, gravedigging, and eschatology.