Philosophy Behind The Podcast

In The Mourning podcast was conceptualised based on existential theories from three distinct philosophers including Albert Camus, Emile Durkheim and the contemporary Death theorist Tony Walter.

1. Albert Camus

The philosophy presented in his one of his most popular novel, The Plague, have been reappropriated to the current Covid-19 pandemic as it talks about how society should expect the recurrences of calamities and understand its occurrence as a natural part of life. Even if they are unpredictable, one must accept its part in the natural order of things.

2. Emile Durkheim

A renowned sociologist and philosopher, Emile Durkheim, had theorized that the existence of grief rites and rituals often function to reinstate feelings of security through "collective consciousness". This threat and disruption to the feelings of security and societal coherence, he mentions, to be brought upon by deaths in the society.

3. Tony Walter

Similarly, Tony Walter's ideas on deaths echoes the sentiments of the aforementioned philosophers, as deaths disrupt a sense of normalcy in everyday life.