Wed, May 28
|Portland
Does Thinking About Death Lead to a Good Life?
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy & The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf ⏱️ Time Commitment: Approx. 2 hours
May 28, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Portland, 2400 NE Broadway, Portland, OR 97232, USA
The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy- A narrative of existential crisis, this text invites deep reflection on life’s value as Ivan Ilyich confronts his own mortality. ~30 pages
The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf- A brief but powerful essay, Woolf’s work uses the image of a moth’s final struggle to explore life’s fragility and the inevitability of death. ~3 pages
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