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Home ยป Articles ยป Mental health ยป Body Image ยป The Price of Perfection: When the Body Becomes a Battlefield. Thoughts on Death Becomes Her: The Musical
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Thereโs something uniquely uncomfortable about watching a woman sing her heart out while slowly falling apartโphysically, emotionally, and metaphorically. Death Becomes Her: The Musical may look like pure comedy on the surface, but underneath the glitter and punchlines, it holds up a mirror to something darker: the cost of living in a world where your value is tied to how young, smooth, and desirable you appear to be.
Madeline and Helen donโt just want to look young – they need to. Because in their world (which isnโt that different from ours), aging is a crisis. Wrinkles are tragedy. And being invisible – especially as a woman.- is worse than death.
That sounds dramatic. And it is. Itโs also true.
When survival means staying beautiful
In the musical, the obsession with staying young is heightened – literally. Itโs loud. Itโs melodic. Itโs choreographed. And it feels familiar. Whether it’s the magic potion or the Instagram filter, the idea is the same: make it look good, no matter how broken it is underneath.
The musical leans hard into satire, but anyone who’s ever stood in front of a mirror trying to erase themselves knows it hits a nerve. Our culture worships youth and punishes aging. Especially for women. Especially when youโve built your identity around being desirable, stunning, and wanted.
What happens when that starts to fade? Or more honestly – what happens when you think it is, and you donโt know who you are without it?
The musical makes a joke of decayโbut itโs not funny when itโs real
One of the most brilliant things the show does is externalize the internal. The characters literally fall apart onstage. Bodies twist, heads snap, paint peels. They are still โyoung, healthy, beautifulโ technically – but theyโre also grotesque. That contrast is powerful. It forces us to ask: What are we trying to preserve? Is it beauty? Or is it control?
Madeline and Helen arenโt just fighting off time. Theyโre fighting off grief. Grief over who they used to be. Who they thought theyโd become. What they lost chasing a standard they could never hold onto.
Theyโre not evil. Theyโre just scared. Of fading. Of being forgotten. Of having to live with themselvesโflaws and all.
Why this story still matters (and stings)
Itโs easy to laugh at the absurdity. Thatโs the point. But as the sequins fall and the lights dim, the question lingers: How many of us would drink the potion? Not just to be young foreverโbut to feel like we matter?
And thatโs the thing. Perfection doesnโt actually give you peace. It just hides the mess for a little while longer. Eventually, the cracks show.
But maybe showing the cracks isnโt failure. Maybe itโs the start of healing. Of softening. Of stepping off the stage and into something more honest – even if itโs not always pretty.
Because we werenโt meant to be perfect. We were meant to be real.
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