M.A. Lecture: "Why You Should Celebrate Your Deathday More Than Your Birthday"

Event Title: "Why You Should Celebrate Your Deathday More Than Your Birthday" with Author Karen Salmansohn

Event Date: Monday, July 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT

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Event Description:
"I believe we celebrate the wrong end of life. We throw parties for birthdays… Meanwhile we ignore the day that gives our life its deepest meaning. Our deathday."

So writes bestselling author Karen Salmansohn in her new book To Die For Life: How To Maximize Joy and Minimize Regret Before Your Time Runs Out, her new book that aims to help reframe thinking about death as motivating rather than morbid.

In this talk, she’ll introduce her new book, and offer suggestions for reverse engineering your life—from your deathbed backwards—in order to transform your current life into the ideal of your aspirational eulogy. “Because,” in her words, "nothing will motivate you to seize the day... more than realizing your days are numbered."

About the Speaker:

• Karen Salmansohn is the bestselling author and book packager of more than 25 books for adults and tweens with more than 1 million copies sold. She has worked as an image consultant, serving clients such as MTV, Nickelodeon, Oxygen Media, and L’Oreal. She has been a featured happiness expert on the Today show, The View, CNN, Fox News, and Real Time with Bill Maher, and has written for Psychology Today, Mind Body Green, Positively Positive, and The Huffington Post. She and her work have been covered by the New York Times, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune,Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Time, Marie Claire, Fast Company, InStyle, Self, ELLE, and the New Yorker.

About the Event Host:
This event is hosted by the Morbid Anatomy Blog & Library, a website dedicated to interstices of art and medicine, death and culture. Morbid Anatomy was created in 2007 as a blog by Joanna Ebenstein, a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, writer, lecturer and graphic designer. It later expanded to include a library of lectures, exhibitions, classes, spectacles, symposia, field trips, books, parties, and films. It is best known for its brief incarnation as the critically acclaimed Morbid Anatomy Museum (2013-2016) in Brooklyn, New York.

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