I vividly remember my introduction to death. I was seven years old, and my babysitter had let me stay up late while she watched an episode of Scrubs. Titled ‘My Overkill’, it starred Colin Hay from the iconic band Men at Work. 

In a short musical montage (set to Hay’s song ‘Overkill’), I followed Hay's character from diagnosis to heart attack to dying—and although he was declared dead, his blue corpse was still strumming the guitar as he was pushed into the morgue refrigeration unit. The nightmares that followed lasted years, and the scene became the catalyst for my anxiety around death.