For Margareta Magnusson, cleaning for one’s death was an important – if not essential – way to spend one’s life. “The only thing we know for sure is that we will die one day,” the Swedish author wrote in 2017. “Let me help you to make your loved ones’ memories of you affectionate, rather than upsetting.”
Magnusson, who has died aged 92, inspired a global movement for death cleaning (döstädning in Swedish) when, in her 80s, she wrote her debut book, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning.
