“Death with Dignity” by Sufjan Stevens

"Death with Dignity" is Sufjan Stevens alone on the writing credit, words and music, and it sits on Carrie & Lowell, the seventh studio album he produced himself and put out on Asthmatic Kitty in March 2015. The album is his reckoning with his mother Carrie's death in 2012, and with his bond with her second husband, Lowell Brams, who had helped him get the label off the ground. After the electronic sprawl of 2010's The Age of Adz, Stevens pared everything back, and critics heard the sparse arrangements as a return to the indie-folk leanings of his earlier work.

The song kept the album's word of mouth going when it turned up in two 2018 video games, Life Is Strange 2 and The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit.

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