The Good Life Reconsidered — Episode 1: Death is Coming, Act Accordingly

What if thinking about death could actually help you live better? In this episode, Jeremy and Blaire explore mortality not as something to fear, but as a powerful lens for living more fully and intentionally.

Blaire shares insights from years of bedside work with people navigating major life transitions, and Jeremy opens up about two near-death experiences, a capsizing canoe at 17 and a widowmaker heart attack at 37, and how those moments shaped his relationship with death.

Together they discuss:

• The obituary exercise — writing your own obituary annually as a tool for reflection and self-awareness
• Death apps — gamifying mortality to shift how you spend your days
• The living funeral — and why the people closest to us may not be in the same place with death that we are
• Grief — why it has no timeline and how to hold it as a permanent guest in life
• The business of death — wills, passwords, and the practical work of making things easier for those we leave behind
• Western culture's sanitization of death — and how leaning in, rather than away, can unlock more presence, beauty, and freedom

Where to start: Have death over for tea. Read philosophy. Ask yourself — if I died tomorrow, did I live a good life?