'DEATH AS AN ABSURDITY' - KAT LISTER ON APPROACHING GRIEF WITH HUMOUR

What do you think - Is there a place for humour in grief?
In March 2023, we explored this questions with writer and editor Kat Lister in 2023. In conversation with The Guardian's Sali Hughes, Kat shared how she still jokes with her husband and other ways her dead-pan humor has appeared in her grief.
Kat's memoir explores her grief after Pat, her husband of 5 years, died of brain cancer when Kat was in her mid-thirties. Following his death, Kat turned to the elements - fire, water, earth, air - on her quest to come to terms with her grief, to inhabit her body again, and to find out who she is now.
This originally aired as part of the Good Grief Festival mini-fest on Hope + Meaning on March 25 2023.
Praise for The Elements:
Stunning and immersive.
SINEAD GLEESON
The only book I’ve read that has made me feel less alone. A must read.
POORNA BELL
Powerful, humane and deeply affecting.
SALI HUGHES