Death, Dying and the Afterlife

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Call Number: DVD 155.937 Be Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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DVDs.
24 lectures (30 minutes per lecture).
Death's place in our lives -- Defining death -- Death, illusion, and meaning -- Is it rational to fear death? -- Understanding and coping with grief -- Death rituals and the corpse -- American death rituals -- Approaches to dying well -- Judaism on death and the afterlife -- Death and hope in Christianity -- Islam on returning to God -- Death, rebirth, and liberation in Hinduism -- Buddhism on impermanence and mindfulness -- The process of dying in Tibetan Buddhism -- Confucian remembrance, Daoist forgetting -- Death and syncretism in China -- Suicide examined -- The choice of euthanasia -- Killing in war and the pacifist challenge -- Considering capital punishment -- Killing non-human animals -- Near-death experiences -- The pursuit of immortality -- The value of death.
Lectured by: Mark Berkson, Hamline University.
"Explore how great faiths, philosophies, and cultures all over the world perceive death -- and existence -- in these life-affirming lectures"--Container.

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