The Art of Dying - BBC Four

[@spmoran4703]

Dan Cruickshank, Maggi Hambling and Sister Wendy all on one programme. It a legend overload .

[@svatisingh1]

So delighted to see Sister Wendy again ~ thank you for sharing this 🙏

[@lindaross783]

I miss Sister Wendy

[@johnking5174]

13:00 - Sister Wendy said here she was 79 years old when this was made. Sister Wendy lived for another 9 years after this episode was made, she died Boxing Day (Saint Stephen's Day) 26th December 2018 at the age of 88, so she does know now if there is an afterlife and what it is like. She is the lucky one.

[@splinterbyrd]

Her most truly immortal line is when she was speaking of a Stanley Spencer painting; "But the public hair is lovely and fluffy."

[@spmoran4703]

@@splinterbyrd Typical Sister Wendy. I truly miss her. Many people who are not Catholic would say should Catholics talk in such a way Ha ha ha . The dont know us Catholics .

[@websurfer5772]

@@spmoran4703 We do nowadays.

[@a.m.9474]

Omg I miss the days of Sister Wendy

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

I don't mean to sound flippant, but I believe my experiences with the drugs LSD and Psilocybin have definitely helped me deal with my own mortality and the idea of my own impending death. When my mother was dying of cancer and I was on the way to see her for the last time, and indeed sit with her while she was dying I was terrified at the thought of it and afterward was numb with something like grief but not the real thing. After taking LSD alone on a west coast beach I was released from the grief of her dying and my own terror at my death. I really have no problem whatsoever with the idea of dying. I relish the thought of 'dropping my body', but intend to live for a long time yet. I think art, literature, music can help us understand all the unusual facets of our brief time and impending departure. I only fear a violent sudden death...that I can't come to peace with. Thanks for this fascinating and moving documentary. I contemplate death every day, something recommended to me by a buddhist nun. I recommend we all think about our death as the culmination of a life lived, the great release. The peace in the end.

[@FiaT_LuX..1990]

U must a crazy person

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

@@FiaT_LuX..1990 I don't consider myself crazy, but I guess I could be, it's all subjective. What's crazy to you may not be crazy to me and vice versa.

[@1SpicyMeataball]

@@AnthonyMonaghan Whoa, don't cut yourself on that edginess.

[@bookaufman9643]

You are obviously wired a lot different than I am. I have nothing but trepidation when it comes to the subject. I guess in the end it won't matter because I won't see it but it feels like such a giant waste. What did it matter what you did if you're gone? Sort of like the curse of severe dementia. What does it matter what you've achieved your whole life if you no longer know who you are and those capable of reminding you are strangers to you or just talking nonsense?

[@llnny863]

Fascinating documentary, thanks for uploading

[@bookaufman9643]

I'm a little disappointed that he doesn't reach out to somebody who has been given a definite death sentence. I don't mean somebody in prison as much as somebody who's been told that they have a severe form of cancer and are no longer undergoing treatment. Not that specifically but anything like that would have been a good addition to this. Without it it comes up as more of a meditation on his own death than death in general.

[@drummerdem50]

Oustanding , Dan is a legend ...thanks

[@maxxlindley9425]

one of the most moving and interesting of documentaries. When this was made he was 59. I am older than he but I have the very same thoughts on death and what we leave behind ....will our legacies mean anything in 500 years? Does it make facing your own coming non existence any easier.? We truly all are dead men walking

[@HamedHashemin]

indeed

[@79oahu]

Seeing your own obituary must be jarring, like Ebenezer Scrooge staring at his tombstone and freshly dug grave. It is a bit like time travel....seeing something from the future that you weren’t meant to see. Seeing into the days after your death. Unsettling to say the least. Even more so because it isn’t a future that might happen, it is 100% guaranteed to happen.

[@SelfOrganisingClassrooms]

Great subject - well done

[@johnking5174]

10:12 - I say to Dan here, what is your memory of the day before you were born? Your answer will be, nothing. No memory at all. Well, if there is no God or afterlife, this is what will happen. You will not know it. You will simply cease to exist. You won't be stuck in a void, you will simply be gone.

[@1SpicyMeataball]

As will you.

[@Richard-yt9vi]

This documentary is great he should have included Penelope boothsby in this documentary her monument is both beautiful and heart breaking 😅

[@hundimzug]

Life is only a brief dream of eternity.

[@bookaufman9643]

The artist named Maggi Hambling who is interviewed in this show looks like the female version of Ian Holm as Bilbo in The Lord of the rings. Strikingly so and even a little bit more like Bilbo when he does that quick monstrous take because of the Ring. I can't shake the strangeness of the similarity

[@mesasavage]

I'm just here for the British teeth...

[@gilesf1]

We do have orthodontists but it would seem it wasn't that important to the wearer! Your comment did make me chuckle so thanks. I'm English by the way. Proud owner of three braces when growing up.

[@susanwzrkentin.stateparks.9158]

My parents gave them to me...

[@friedrichwilhelmvonsteuben7952]

Never thought about Death until I watched someone very close to me die. Now it's all I think about.

[@vivienneandersson6019]

Same here

[@Astarshine1]

J S watch my beloved pet cat die before I could get her to vet 😨

[@johnking5174]

It is nothing to be scared of. I came so close to death in July 2017 when I fell into a diabetic coma. The doctors said that I was 90% gone, it was a miracle that I survived. I know what it is like to be this close to death. Don't worry. It is very peaceful. I had a lot of experiences during my coma.

[@chrisoconnor4743]

A secular attempt to face upto dying. Utterly depressing. It actually shows how secularism really has very little to offer when facing any kind of human suffering. As the Discalced Catholic Carmelite Nun, Sister Wendy carefully alluded too. I've spent half my life working in a home for dying in Kolkata. "Without God, there is no hope" As the Rabbi Jonathan Sax told Richard Dawkins.

[@juliepeters3716]

I found it depressing. So very sad. You are right secularism is devoid of hope.

[@jhaechee8732]

I really wished this documentary was more insightful with information comin from the fields of philosophy, psychology, ethics, medicine and the likes but most of it was just endless blabber about this host's dad which consumes most of the footage shown I could be easily mistaken for his BIOGRAPHY masked in the art of dying. what a missed opportunity this could have been great..

[@chrisoconnor4743]

I agree

[@1SpicyMeataball]

It's more him coming to terms with his Father's death and his eventual death. Sorry you couldn't wank your d*ck over metaphysical questions absent from it.

[@devoradamaris]

🤲👑🤲sharing🫂thankYOU

[@billkarmetsky4003]

Perhaps the only thing I can say is death is messy, Not for the dead but for the dying and survivors. I have absolutely no preparations for when that day comes. I do get spammed all the time to pay for this cremation or that grave site or what have you and I can't help thinking death is not only messy but a way for others, like life insurance, to grift off someone while alive and productive. So, I make jokes constantly, seek to make others laugh, I find myself interested in people now enough to let them talk and share opinions and memories because in the long run none of mine are that important to even pretend I've ever been anyone's life at the party. And I'm satisfied with it.

[@boufontleflamingoetta8433]

Could this show have been as poignant without the macabre seen of the dead man?

[@bellamarie7254]

What is the narrators name ?

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Dan Cruickshank.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Dan Cruickshank

[@unruelycayde4143]

How’d I get here

[@SevenRavens007]

The real mystery is life, not death

[@jeremywestern7067]

wappen to sister marys buck teeth? ivory chess set?