Naomi Westerman

Happy Death Club

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Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology grad student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning death from the academic to the deeply personal. She struggled with grief and talking about, particularly as a young woman, realising while death is everywhere in our culture, grief is harder to find in specialist ways.

This Inkling combines academic study with memoir to discuss the popularity of murder as entertainment in true crime podcasts; women working in the death industry; Naomi's love of horror and what it's like writing horror movies for a living when your mum was maybe murdered; the rise of death peer support groups; and death rituals in other countries. Happy Death Club provides a frank, touching and sometimes hilarious look at death, grief, and bereavement.
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90 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2024
Publication year
2024
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Quotes

  • Sol Ríoshas quoted6 days ago
    I always felt, even before I experienced bereavement, that my emotions were too big, too loud, too colourful to really be socially acceptable. The heightened emotion and, yes, craziness of horror
    allows me for a brief time to feel that the enormity of my emotions isn’t out of sync with the whole world, that I am not alone, that women are allowed to scream and get scared, get angry, be ugly, be LOUD. To do whatever it takes to survive.
  • Sol Ríoshas quoted6 days ago
    ‘We have control over our experience, we can decide to shut our eyes or walk away, when the narrative gets too disturbing. For as long as we maintain this control we are able to enjoy the negative emotions that the fiction elicits in ways we would not be able to in real life.’44
  • Sol Ríoshas quoted6 days ago
    It’s also about trauma – people with extreme child-
    hood trauma (hey c’est moi!) tend to love horror because horror creates the same somatic experience of trauma but you’re in control. You have the power to pause it, lower
    the volume, hit the mute button or the stop button.

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