Your coffin isn’t hitched to a U-Haul.

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[@TheMinimalists]

What is one thing you need to declutter before you die?

[@Bessie66]

My mind

[@adinashaina9977]

paper

[@Bessie66]

@@adinashaina9977 gave my mum who’s 76 all my excessive pen collection and notepads and confidently said I don’t think you will ever buy another notepad and pen again! She thought it was hilarious 🤣🤣

[@katherinerandell8652]

My husband 🤣

[@thegoodlife5383]

People need to Declutter their Mind.

[@Warehouse-jm7vd]

My path towards minimalism started since I began my career in self storage. I cannot tell you how heartbreaking it is to watch people suffer....struggling to pay for "stuff" they rarely visit.

[@carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679]

I bought a storage facility for 3 months. What did I store there? Emergency food and water, supplies. But not "stuff". It's not THAT you store, it is WHAT you store. When I left in my RV, I emptied it and cancelled it. I took it to a safe space and we spent 45 days of combining materials with my brother and making sure we were all okay before I went on my adventure. The girl I love, she got left with a full freezer and so much food and water, she is okay. Miss her to tears, know that I left her most things of value and my "family legacy". When I die now, everything left is hers (she can chuck it in the dumpster) and give my RV to my brother. Oh, the money? Oh, that's hers. For what it will be worth - let her have it.

[@tamiz8895]

This is so wonderful and helpful, and it is a good mindset. We are not guaranteed tomorrow. I don’t want to be remembered for my hoard. It’s exhausting storing, cleaning, moving, worrying about, shuffling stuff. I am currently in the beginning stages of getting rid of a decade’s worth of compulsive shopping. I’m keeping about 1/4 of what I have and donating the rest. I just want what I’m donating gone, gone fast and gone for good. I’m tired of my home looking like a storage unit. That’s no way to live.

[@katgarcia9099]

Thank you for talking about this, I currently have Mantle Cell Lymphoma again, stage 4 still, I have been on this Swedish death journey for about 7 years without knowing it's called that. I am thankful you are addressing this issue as most people avoid it and most people don't have a Living Will. If you don't PLEASE take time to do this now. I know 1st hand the legal nightmare of someone not having a will. It could take years after your death for family to be able to deal with your stuff which will prolong their grief 😔 Many thanks for this show!!! 💜

[@kamarbazarek6460]

Kat - I’ve had breasts cancer ( 10 surgeries), I will Keep you in my prayers - I hold you up to God.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐🙏🙏💐🙏( I’m presently doing the Swedish-thing) cancer free - but I’m dealing with my 2nd rebound COVID virus......

[@Carolmaizy]

Bless you, my friend.

[@katgarcia9099]

Thank you!

[@Carolmaizy]

@@katgarcia9099 how are you doing?

[@katgarcia9099]

@@Carolmaizy still trying to get short term disability approved and paying until social security makes decisions 🙄 🤔, my dr office didn't send medical records so it's possible I lost my medical insurance, which is currently suspended/inactive for unknown reasons. Hope to have it resolved tomorrow. Physically I get tired very easy, my blood count is stable this month..1st time in a long while. Basically, I m existing. It doesn't help not having money coming in to pay for regular bills let alone medical. I face each day as a single unit as I don't know how my next day will be. So decluttering as much as I can and learning to let go to live with only what brings a smile is completely different and difficult sometimes. Thanks for asking 🙂

[@nobully22]

Dr Zach is so fresh and calming and poetic about self and life and energy. I needed to wake up and listen to this today.

[@mandycovington7606]

Along the way of my minimalism journey I came across and read 'The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning'. It prompted me to think about what will happen to my stuff after death. It is nice to have time to think about it when there's no distress associated with it like there is when someone passes away. I plan on writing notes for those I leave behind on what they might do with the stuff, what's of monetary value, what's just sentimental, who might benefit from my art materials, etc. I have the opportunity now while I'm alive and well to make things as easy as possible. I also want to make sure that they know that my stuff might be important to me but it absolutely need not be to them and it they want to dispose of everything they have my blessing. I don't want anyone burdened with my stuff. But that will only happen if I tell them that.

[@terrilloyd3691]

Zach Bush has a genius most of us can only aspire to have. I could listen to him all day.❤

[@cassandraknight8804]

Thank you for talking about your mother and what she went through

[@chrysvest4746]

I so agree with your assessment of chemo for advanced cancer. What a horrendous way to extend a life of misery. I saw my MIL go through that, and honestly, unless it was at a beginning stage and I was sure they could get it all…. No way. And then after she died, we literally called a homeless shelter and said, take it all away. There was nothing we wanted.

[@feyzaakinci3678]

My dad also had stage 4 lung cancer and went through chemo. It was useless. I wish I could prevent it. And I also did my dads death cleaning after him. It is such a hard thing because he had so much stuff he could use just in case. 😔

[@slane_design]

Dr Zach makes me cry! what a poet!!!!

[@dannyh9010]

Business name: Pharaoh Pods! 🤣

[@Bessie66]

I can remember clearing out my nans sideboard - loads and loads of American tan coloured tights - she always said sone had small holes in but would be ok under trousers …… she never wore trousers! 😂

[@laurelmctiernan1174]

This is helpful. I'm not taking any of this stuff with me in the after life.

[@jjgm5432]

Just wow... Amazing analogy of life as a storm. Love it! Thanks for all you do.

[@alanbirkner1958]

We want to be remembered for what we did, not what we had. Tina, Al's wife

[@Recordings-ov4hv]

I enjoy all your podcasts greatly but this one is so necessary because there is only one certainty we have in this life and it is that one day we will leave this material dimension for a less material one (where luckily we cannot take anything with us!) so it's important to be reasonable and think now. The Argentinian actor Ricardo Darin, whose movies I absolutely recommend, spoke a few years ago of the day he went to empty his father's flat who had died and was a poet. He said his father lived very simply and owned a bed, a table, a chair, some cooking utensils, a few shirts and trousers and a box where he kept his poem notebooks. And I also want to share an anecdote about Oscar Wilde I read in a book written by a French radio journalist and famous medium called Patricia Darré. You may believe it or not but there's an interesting element about it. Oscar Wilde spent 2 years of his life in Reading gaol in England doing forced work as a sentence for his homosexuality and when he was released he didn't own anything anymore, he was very poor and excluded from society. He moved to Paris, life was cheap at the time, where he lived poorly and died of meningitis in a shabby hotel near place Saint Sulpice (Hotel des Beaux-Arts today, a very nice hotel right in the centre of Paris, and you can book the 'Gentleman' room which is where he died and it's expensive now). Patricia Darré writes in her first book published in 2012 (Un souffle vers l'éternité/A breath towards eternity) that she was asked back in 2005 by her Hierarchy to help the spirit of Oscar Wilde. In the dimension where he had been since his death in 1900, he had recreated his London flat and garden with the utmost detail and did not want to move on to a higher dimension. He knew he had died but was enjoying what he had lost. The problem was everything was starting to rot. So she helped him understand what was going on and he accepted to let go. I am not saying this is true but if it is, then what does it say about materialism and its consequences beyond our lifetime?? This intelligent man, this genius, spent 105 years surrounded by his material creations because of what he had lost. So if one does not learn to live with less now, one will have to learn to do so eventually, in another dimension... The implications are extremely serious. So thank you Josh and Ryan for what you have been teaching us all these years! 😄 👍🏻

[@HelenRT]

You explained that beautifully!

[@breec3346]

My mom and step dad dealt with this when my step grandparents passed away. They had all of their things to figure out what to do with!

[@crisashley5056]

“Live ready to die” love it

[@Boondockmum]

This video is a blessing. (And might I add that the doctor sounded Just Like Tom Selleck to me. So soothing...) 🕯️💫✨

[@mclovin7375]

This was inspirational. Thanks 🙏

[@DavidDavisDH]

I'm definitely not the average person. Before I moved out of my mom's house 5 years ago, I got rid of half of my stuff. Now I'm moving back I have even less stuff than I moved in with my apartment. I don't keep that many things from my past, just pictures mainly. I still have the basic stuff like a tv, laptop, table, microwave, etc.

[@joannavillegas1678]

This has been on my mind a lot. I recently lost my mom last year and she held onto a lot of things. Most of them new for when we'd move into our own home. Now I have 2 storage units, even tho I let go of 90% of what she owned, it's the sentimental items that's hard to let go. But I hardly go to the units and I know I need to let fo

[@jamesdaceyjr8857]

Great message! Powerful insight. Thank you guys..

[@cassandraknight8804]

I really relate to this talk, I have just turned 48 and have health problems…. Such a great talk for me right now… not just letting go of stuff but roles ect….I never even realised the possibility until it started happening ❤ and an amazing experience.

[@eloise3280]

Dr Zach...wow, legendary!

[@christineinhonolulu]

The doctor’s description of the “storm” is analogous to the Buddhist concept of anatman: “no self”.

[@deanacincotta2236]

Dr. Bush is very insightful... it's just lovely to listen to him

[@aussiegirl2148]

I took photos of sentimental objects from my family before I threw them out.

[@michellecd4722]

Got to be the Devil's Advocate here & disagree about one aspect; those with dementia. Photographs & objects absolutely trigger memories otherwise intellectually forgotten during conversations such as; "Hey do you remember?..." A photo or object absolutely can help those with mild dementia, it's certainly helped me & my Mom's connections to life events. What's scary is after me there's nothing, never had kids & my bro died at age 30 before finding a life partner & having any kids., so with elderly folks & my own chronic health issues this is a current project along with reselling online. But I will be hanging onto the most sentimental things til' the last minute ;)

[@lenalootens5625]

Wow wow, want a fantastic monolog of Dr Zach Bush... thank you so much! Greetings from Belgium

[@stephendownes6331]

At 56 with 4 grown children I have begun distribution, 6 huge tubs of photos, their old artworks, baby stuff everything, there is no reason for me to be responsible custodian of their inheritance. I gave my mother's jewellery to my sister, my father's watch I never wear to my son etc etc. They should enjoy these things now rather than converting them in my display cabinet or whatever. They only thing I really struggle with is tools, I love things that do things and love having "the right tool" for a once a year job so I just made a manifest of everything and annexed to my will will with distribution instructions, local men's shed etc. Use it or lose it and free your mind.

[@avrub]

Love Ryan's new business idea😅👍 3:20 It wi be a next unicorn 🦄 in no time😆 Let's start joint venture immediately😎😁😁

[@gracekelly2810]

Love this!

[@CasadeBemcomaTerra]

I love all your thougts about all this!!!! Hugs from Brazil!!!!

[@christelschmidt7468]

Loved the book…The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning”. I read a lot while I was staring my minimalism journey and I’m still on the path.

[@JenHaycock]

Just powerful 💪🏻 Dr Bush, no doubt, has an understanding of life. Such passion! I had to share! ❤️

[@sandraf6033]

First. My grandmother definitely did this. For years she asked who might want what and labelled items underneath.

[@Recordings-ov4hv]

Bless her! Exactly what everybody should do!

[@lparrish89]

That’s a wonderful idea!!

[@annsalty5615]

Nobody is inheriting our 'stuff'. After experiencing cleaning out my aunt's place after she died, and discovering she was a hoarder like you see in those shows..... then preparing and clearing out my mother-in law's stuff so she could move into assisted living..... if at all possible clear your stuff before leaving it for someone to do. They will honor you for doing so, versus cursing all that 'stuff' as they clear it out.

[@dianebrown8581]

I am an event planner for both church and in my home. It brings me and others joy to use the items I have to create a beautiful table, ambiance, etc. I do believe things are just things and relationships are paramount. However, I think it's okay to have some nice things as long as they are being used.

[@renupunjabi9482]

Deadly!

[@dawnmireles2912]

I love the energy from decluttering and living with less. If it also prepares my family for dealing with my stuff after my death then that is ok too. I think if we tie our death with Minimalism it will be harder for people to let go of things. I look at as I get to choose who is getting my wonderful things right now in my life. It is not just all thrown away it is being used by many who had very little and have been given joy from my things. I have enjoyed the reduced responsibility of owning so much. I still have a little way to go but what is left brings me the most joy or is needed to live (bed, etc.). :) November 10, 2022

[@dawnmireles2912]

I also love living what I read in the Bible in letting go of possessions. November 10, 2022

[@sarahlockridge7879]

Marky Mark..."got that good vibrations..."

[@amonralice]

Wow. ❤ Thank you.

[@chriskappler3482]

The man is a poet :)

[@mariew353]

There are no pockets on your last shirt!

[@markfornefeld299]

Is there a book out called Swedish death cleaning

[@mandycovington7606]

Hi, Yes there is. The gentle art of Swedish death cleaning by Margareta Magnusson. It is a short book but really good. I recommend it.

[@markfornefeld299]

@@mandycovington7606 I have read the one about the joy of tidying up by Marie Kondo and I recommend that one for you if you haven’t read it

[@mandycovington7606]

Thanks. I have read that book. It's great isn't it. That's the one that kicked off my minimalism journey and I've never looked back!

[@Bessie66]

Being passed down things from family from there family that you never knew - it’s almost a Swedish death cleaning handover without the responsibility?

[@laurasauriol5843]

But doesn't everyone have some stuff? I mean, even if you're in a retirement home, there is still stuff

[@BE-bs8oe]

"Are U willing to BE nothing , so that u can BE witness to everything?!" Hearing this I felt I was invited to whirlwind Iron Man with Ryan .

[@m.e.3963]

Dude is a bit egotistical for my taste.

[@avrub]

Amen to that @ZachBushMD 4:48