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Introduction
Death: The High Price of Living is a live Skeleton-Man show that centers on one of life’s most unavoidable questions: our mortality.
While it may sound morbid to reflect on personal death, the show starts from a simple premise: awareness of life’s limits sharpens our experience of being alive. Death puts existence into perspective. It helps us celebrate what matters, trivialize what does not, and approach life with greater clarity, courage, and presence.
Rather than offering answers, the show invites reflection – lightly, seriously, and with humor – on what it means to live knowing that life is finite.
The Show
The show is performed by Skeleton-Man and combines spoken performance with a Keynote presentation. Over the course of 50–60 minutes, the audience is guided through philosophical, existential, and human themes that most of us encounter at some point, but rarely stop to explore.
This is a missed opportunity – with the right framing and personal attitude these questions can open a surprising source of energy, insight, and motivation.
Drawing on thinkers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, Simone de Beauvoir, and Viktor Frankl, the show touches on themes of death, freedom, isolation, responsibility, and the human search for meaning. These thinkers are not presented academically, but as companions who help illuminate everyday life.
Skeleton-Man serves as an engaging and playful guide throughout the show, ensuring that the material remains accessible, human, and alive – and that no one is left behind.
Existential Reflection in the Workplace
The existential conditions of life form the foundation on which all human activity rests, including, our working lives.
Our pursuit of meaning is a powerful motivator in organizations. At the same time, unreflected fears around death, freedom, and isolation can shape workplace behavior in less constructive ways. They may surface as workaholism, perfectionism, resistance to change, or strained relations between leadership and employees.
Existential reflection does not offer quick fixes. Instead, it opens new perspectives on collaboration, responsibility, authority, and shared purpose – both individually and collectively.
For this reason, Death: The High Price of Living is also available in a version tailored specifically for organizations and enterprises. In this format, themes such as work-life balance, perfectionism, leadership, active listening, and meaningful collaboration are explored from an existential perspective.
A Show for All
Death: The High Price of Living is suited for private companies, public institutions, educational settings, and cultural venues seeking a creative, engaging, and thought-provoking experience that addresses life’s “big questions” in a human and accessible way.
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