Constant Wonder Podcast Transcripts
BYUradio · 238 episodes with transcripts
Stay in tune with our phenomenal world. Join us for explorations of science, art, history, and more. We're on a quest to find awe and wonder in all nature—human or wild, vast or small. Encounters that move us beyond words. Hosted by Marcus Smith, Constant Wonder is a production of BYUradio.
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Why the World Throws Parties for the Dead
October 7, 2026
Marcus Smith (0:05)
Encounters with Awe, you're listening to Constant Wonder. I'm Marcus Smith.
You're about to meet a lively, delightful, good-humored, I would say perfectly normal person. And yet throughout her childhood and early adulthood, Erica Buist had high anxiety about death and dying. Abnormally high, I would say, sometimes incapacitating. Even in her late twenties, whenever she saw her partner Dion…
Erica Buist (1:08)
This woman who had been dead for four years, she had brand new clothes and there were people running up to her, putting their phones in her dead face because there's someone on FaceTime who wants to see her.
And I saw this woman going, Oh my God, hi! You know, she was so happy to see her again.
Marcus Smith (1:36)
Erica has given the way she looks at death a complete overhaul, and she thinks maybe you should too.
She's actually amazingly persuasive on the subject not just of coming to terms with our mortality, but of practically celebrating it. Erica Buist is the author of This Party's Dead, Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World's Death Festivals, about to be released in paperback. To gain first-hand experience with these…
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