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“Döstädning: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning” is the bestselling book that sparked a TV show and popularized a decluttering technique that has people clean up their belongings before they die, so their friends and family won’t have to.

Behind the series is Scout Productions, known for reality shows like “Queer Eye,” “Legendary” and “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning,” a company with decades of experience in the reality competition space.

Some participants face a terminal diagnosis, while others are merely retired, and the “death cleaning” process is meant both to prevent one’s heirs from having to deal with all their stuff and to empower people to find joy and meaning in their possessions and in the distribution thereof.

Why are Swedes the right type of people to have created death cleaning as a concept?

Svenson: One thing about minimalism in Sweden is that’s the result of doing death cleaning.