# How to Die a Good Death with Sarah Friend

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## Summary

Sarah Friend, an artist and software developer based in Berlin, discusses her research on protocol death in this podcast recorded at Devcon 2024. In 2023 she was a research fellow at Summer of Protocols, led by Venkatesh Rao and the Ethereum Foundation, where she studied the death of protocols and published a paper on "Good Death." The conversation covers how and when protocols are considered dead, how different human cultures view death, and what the host calls the silliness behind the longevity movement.

## Article

While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Sarah Friend,an artist and software developer from Canada and based in Berlin. In 2023, she was a research fellow at Summer of Protocols, led by Venkatesh Rao and the Ethereum Foundation, studying the death of protocols and published a paper on “Good Death“.

We discussed her findings in her research on how and when protocols are considered dead, how different human cultures view death and the silliness behind the longevity movement.

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