the gentle swedish art of death cleaning

(The familiar voice Amy Poehler narrates, and she serves as executive producer.) It follows three Swedish death cleaners – Ella Engström, an organizer Johan Svenson, a designer and Katarina Blom, a psychologist – as they assist Americans in Kansas City trying to tidy up their lives, materially and emotionally.

'The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning' is now a TV series streaming on Peacock. But death cleaning isn't just for those near death anyone can do it at anytime: before or after a big life change, or if they're simply sick of all the clutter around them. The longstanding in Swedish practice – further popularized with the book ' The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning' by Margareta Magnusson – involves a person going through their things so they don't burden their loved ones with too much junk when they die. But it's actually all about living in the present. So let’s talk about it.' Swedish death cleaning' may sound like a funeral ritual. Or, as Katarina, the earthy, yoga-teaching psychologist of the trio, puts it: “We’re all born, and we’re all going to die. As Poehler puts it in her narration, the death cleaners, Johan, Katarina and Ella, excel at “cleaning out your crap so others don’t have to when you’re dead.” One of the contestants, Shana, actually has terminal lung cancer, and the cleaners help her not merely to fix up her residence but also to talk to her friends and family about what she needs, including a strong dose of openness and honesty. With a big heart, self-knowing wit, and an efficiency you might expect from the title, the show comes not to shame people but to celebrate their resilience, one lifestyle makeover at a time.Įxecutive produced and narrated by Amy Poehler, Death Cleaning is also quite cheeky, especially for a show in which mortality is never far from the conversation. But even with this glut there’s a place for The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, the new Peacock series based on Margareta Magnusson’s book of the same name. Let there never be a doubt that a buck can be made off human slovenliness.

Decluttering has become an industry in itself in recent years, with Hoarders prompting TV viewers to recoil in shock at the sight of dwellings stacked to the brim with stuff and Marie Kondo teaching readers The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

The gentle swedish art of death cleaning