Amy Poehler narrates this funny, practical series about sorting out your clutter before you die. It’s a moving – if not delicate – look at our mortality

I wonder what it says about western society that the once-dominant home makeover show has been transformed into the all-encompassing life makeover show? Whereas we once had a lick of paint and some bold decisions about stencilling, now TV of a similar ilk offers to perform a complete inventory of one’s existence. Joining Queer Eye , Sort Your Life Out , Tidying Up With Marie Kondo and so on in the overhaul genre is The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. It’s a similarly lovely intervention, with a little more culture-clash thrown in for good measure.

Amy Poehler tempers the sweetness slightly with an occasionally spiky voiceover – at one point, she credits Swedish efficiency to the availability of free healthcare, an unexpectedly socialist interlude – but this is feelgood TV designed to expand the heart. Poehler explains that death cleaning is “basically getting your shit together before you die, so that others don’t have to do it when you’re gone”. It was the subject of a bestselling book by Margareta Magnusson – and here it is now, in the form of an applied demonstration.

Amy Poehler narrates this funny, practical series about sorting out your clutter before you die. It’s a moving – if not delicate – look at our mortality

I wonder what it says about western society that the once-dominant home makeover show has been transformed into the all-encompassing life makeover show? Whereas we once had a lick of paint and some bold decisions about stencilling, now TV of a similar ilk offers to perform a complete inventory of one’s existence. Joining Queer Eye , Sort Your Life Out , Tidying Up With Marie Kondo and so on in the overhaul genre is The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. It’s a similarly lovely intervention, with a little more culture-clash thrown in for good measure.

Amy Poehler tempers the sweetness slightly with an occasionally spiky voiceover – at one point, she credits Swedish efficiency to the availability of free healthcare, an unexpectedly socialist interlude – but this is feelgood TV designed to expand the heart. Poehler explains that death cleaning is “basically getting your shit together before you die, so that others don’t have to do it when you’re gone”. It was the subject of a bestselling book by Margareta Magnusson – and here it is now, in the form of an applied demonstration.

Amy Poehler narrates this funny, practical series about sorting out your clutter before you die. It’s a moving – if not delicate – look at our mortality

I wonder what it says about western society that the once-dominant home makeover show has been transformed into the all-encompassing life makeover show? Whereas we once had a lick of paint and some bold decisions about stencilling, now TV of a similar ilk offers to perform a complete inventory of one’s existence. Joining Queer Eye , Sort Your Life Out , Tidying Up With Marie Kondo and so on in the overhaul genre is The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. It’s a similarly lovely intervention, with a little more culture-clash thrown in for good measure.

Amy Poehler tempers the sweetness slightly with an occasionally spiky voiceover – at one point, she credits Swedish efficiency to the availability of free healthcare, an unexpectedly socialist interlude – but this is feelgood TV designed to expand the heart. Poehler explains that death cleaning is “basically getting your shit together before you die, so that others don’t have to do it when you’re gone”. It was the subject of a bestselling book by Margareta Magnusson – and here it is now, in the form of an applied demonstration.