
So, Life Wants You Dead
So, Life Wants You Dead is a weekly podcast of intimate patient interviews from around the world and the narrative of one woman’s experience of illness. It's a show about illness, trauma, creativity and disability hosted by Nora Logan, a writer, well-being advocate and liver transplant recipient. Nora went into unexpected liver failure in 2015 at age 28 whilst working in late-night comedy TV. She received a life-saving liver transplant a few weeks later. Whatever caused her liver to fail was never diagnosed and remains a mystery to this day. She has tried to make sense of her calamity through writing and sharing her experience and by connecting with the patient community. In this show, Nora creates the space to have honest, funny and expansive conversations with people who have an illness, disability or chronic condition and who just so happen to be creatives, too.
Episodes
17 episodes
Carolina Barlow on Deepening Empathy and Making it Funny
In this episode, Nora speaks to writer and producer Carolina Barlow about her life-altering car accident at the age of 28. Nora and Carolina discuss the commonalities in what they’ve been through (and how they both thought maybe astrology would...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:08:42

Georgia Fenwick on Sobriety and Creativity
In this episode, Nora speaks to Georgia Fenwick, an entrepreneur, writer, and mother who got sober at 22. We discuss how Georgia got sober, the impact it has had on her creativity, the challenges she faced in shutting down her creative side as ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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55:43

Daisy Friedman on Tradition, Filmmaking and Embodiment
In this episode, Nora speaks to Daisy Friedman, a writer, director, and multi-organ transplant recipient. We talk about Daisy’s story: she received critical transplants as a child which led to her current work as a filmmaker exploring themes of...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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52:45
Ashley Eakin on Filmmaking, Representation and Creative Triumphs
In this episode. Nora speaks to writer and director Ashley Eakin. Ashley has directed projects for Disney+, Apple TV+ and Netflix. Her AFI Directing Workshop for Women short film Single, won t...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:01:18

Harshada Wagner On the Blessing in Illness, Existential Brokenness and His Art Practice
In this episode, Nora speaks to Harshada David Wagner, a master meditation instructor, author, artist, dad, and wisdom teacher, about being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and having an ileostomy at 27 and how it has shaped his life, art, and...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:00:04

Ethan Lipsitz on Embracing Mortality, Artistic Exploration and Parenthood
In this episode, Nora speaks to social practice artist Ethan Lipsitz. Diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017, Ethan discusses how his diagnosis shifted his perspective, the roles of curiosity and acceptance in his journey, and the evolution of his...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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59:59

Dr Akilah Cadet on Dismantling White Supremacy, Living Fully and the Power of Self-Advocacy
In this episode, Nora talks to Dr. Akilah Cadet, who shares what it's like living with rare genetic conditions, the challenges of being believed as a Black woman in the American healthcare system, and the impact of white supremacy in healthcare...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:00:23

Jezz Chung on Transformation, Neurodivergence and the Power of Imagination + Community
In this episode, Nora interviews Jezz Chung, a Korean-American writer, facilitator, and performer based in NYC.
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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49:24

Chris Tartaro on Facing Mortality Twice, Creativity and Balancing Parenting with Illness
In this episode of So Life Wants You Dead, Nora sits down with Chris Tartaro. Chris Tartaro is a television director from Queens, NY, who currently works on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He is a father of 3 and a husband of 1.He i...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:01:32

Disability Pride Month: Live from Soho House with Kendall Ciesemier
In this episode, we talk to Kendall Ciesemier, a writer, producer, reporter, and health and disability advocate. Nora celebrated the launch event of So, Life Wants You Dead during Disability Pride Month last July when we recorded this conversat...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:00:57
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Ronaé Fagon On Navigating a Medical System Not Set Up to Cater to a Mystery Illness
In this episode, we talk to Ronaé Fagon, a sustainability thought leader, illustrator, fashion designer, and co-founder of the sustainable e-commerce platform SlowCo. We talk about Ronaé’s experien...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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48:20

Claudia Walder on Shame, Community + Finding New Ground after Disability
In this episode, Nora talks to Claudia Rose Walder, a London-based editor and creative director working within the realms of styling, image direction and journalism. She is also a disability activist, model and the founder of Ablezine, a magazi...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:07:12

Playwright Matilda Ibini on Humour and Writing Your Way Through
In this episode, Nora talks to Matilda Ibini. Matilda is a Nigerian Londoner and an award-winning bionic, Queer playwright and screenwriter with Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy. Their work often centres women, disabled people, Queer people and t...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:03:58

Alexa Wilding on Caregiving, Minor-Major Characters in Your Story & Two Cancer Diagnoses in One Family
In this episode, Nora talks to Alexa Wilding, a writer, musician, and mother of two whose cancer and caregiving experience has both built community and informed her creative life. We talk about what i...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:22:10
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Charlie Fitz On Using Art to Reclaim the Medical Narrative
In this episode, we talk to Charlie Fitz. Charlie is a UK-based sick and disabled artist, arts practitioner, writer, co-director of the remote artist studio TRIAD³ c.i.c and medical humanities postgraduat...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:13:21

Poet Tonya Ingram on Navigating the Organ Donor System
In this episode, we talk to Tonya Ingram, a poet and mental health advocate living with Lupus. During our conversation, we discuss Tonya’s experience being on the kidney transplant waiting list, the darker side of the organ transplant process a...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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42:53
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Nora’s Story of Liver Failure, Reimagining Dreams and the 'Why' of So, Life Wants You Dead
In this episode, Nora talks about her illness, what happened when she went into liver failure, and her subsequent liver transplant surgery. Speaking to her friend and former colleague Christine Cestaro, she talks about why she wanted to start S...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:11:56
