Optimism: What can you learn about life from an undertaker?
Channel: statelibraryqld
Date: 2011-05-30

Filmed as part of the 2011 Ideas Festival, Brisbane. We tend to be familiar with the ingredients of environmentally sensitive living, manifested in our love of the Prius, our fervor for recycling and abhorrence of plastic bags. Zenith Virago, the founding member of the non-profit Natural Death Centre Australia and co-author of Intimacy of Death and Dying invites those in pursuit of sustainable lifestyles to consider the options available for an equally conscious 'deathstyle'. Take one step further on an exploration of environmental considerations and explore those surrounding death.