Ago after my mom passed away i was an avid reader of the series and that is how the book came about. You spend several years writing about that . So when i moved here there was a lot of separation in my life both of my parents have died. In to get the diagnosis is a bigger wanted to explore in writing and that is part of the book. Was this cathartic . Extremely. I realized that People Struggle lot but i got a lot of books a lot of poetry collections and then to revisit those that i had one of the next things that you had was looking for word was a way for me to move forward. Host neece if you were afraid of death in the art of death. Guest yes. The eric the rutted to two different kinds of people. In they would be speaking for three hours. And others would be like co. [laughter] because it means an end your people that we love but i learned especially the writers like Christopher Hichens writing about their own death in even with my own parents they want to tell us to live. No regrets at the end. Host to the living find that message . We put that in the back of our mind but Christopher Hichens writes in his book with mortality the difference between living and dying but the constant awareness you have the expiration date. But for the dying people every single day they live. Host Edwidge Danticat, you compare your mother and Christopher Hichens. There were different situations in my head is my mother was extremely religious she believed she was going to have been but what they had in common was to maintain a sense of humor and my mom also made jokes and the one thing that she said with both of them thought it was safe to ask why me and why not a child . Sorry women with babies . But the way that they could have connected. Host you open with a relatively funny story of your mother. Initially my mom and my dad wanted to be a doctor. And then to get into the medical profession somehow. [laughter] the web my books were published in thank you were with me they were very proud. My mom wanted me to give my book to every single doctor. And that she wasnt just a body. And he said i am a body but my mother wanted people to know more than that. So this was very surprising for me. That it was also one of the guests that she valued my work. Host from the art of death more and more are writing your own obituaries. Guest yes. Surprisingly with social media before people past the way we have to get into the attic to find their letters but now it is on facebook then took a few people who have died in the Facebook Page states that on their birth the blue bag of a birthday people write to them. Now it is metaphorical. But there were these ways to create this narrative about ourselves. But then we can construct with social media how we remember after week on. To sum up what is the art of death . As somebody in their rates but in the end the tuesday that as the part of life. The living the best life that we can. Host Edwidge Danticat bader their cultural differences with the mysticism of death. Guest absolutely. Because we lived in a culture. To outsource. Ended may o lifetime. But when i went to bed we went to having all of that. So every culture has its own visualizing. And then what we believe happened. One of my favorite parts is your mother under her breath during room during. In saying until death do us part. I said that was beautiful shoes and i wish is telling him that. [laughter] so that was that way. Host how often . As often as they will have me. It is about the cycle of life and death so id love to be in the new yorker. Silica somebody wants to access your work . Edwidge