How do you want to live before you die? Encountering one’s own mortality – death contemplation individual sessions with Anja Franczak

As part of the exhibition, you have the possibility to sign up for an individual session with Anja Franczak. During the 30 minute meeting, Anja will invite you to lay down in the coffin and guide you through an inner journey. You will visualize your last day on earth and look back at your life from the perspective of its end. 

From the countless possibilities of what your death might look like, you will take a closer look at a scenario of you dying in peace, acceptance, and gratefulness. What kind of life has led you there? How have you spent your time on this planet? Who are the human and non-human beings who have brought fulfillment to your life? What have you learned and what has surprised you? What gifts have you brought into the world? And what traces will remain after your death?

The quality of our sleep is not determined by the last hours of the evening. Instead, it is the result of how we spent the entire day. Similarly, the quality of our dying process depends not only on medical, emotional, social, and spiritual support in the last days of our life. A “good” death is a consequence of the choices and decisions we make during our entire biography.

Contemplation on death ultimately is a conscious encounter with life. Awareness of our own mortality has the power to put things into perspective. When we realise, that our existence in this form is finite, we are inclined to ask ourselves how we would like to spend the limited amount of time we have been granted. 

Individual sessions are available in Polish, English, and German language.