The Death Café Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Death Café Movement write by Jack Fong. This book was released on 2017-07-31. The Death Café Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This sociological work examines the phenomenon of the Death Café, a regular gathering of strangers from all walks of life who engage in “death talk” over coffee, tea, and desserts. Using insightful theoretical frameworks, Fong explores the common themes that constitute a “death identity” and reveals how Café attendees are inspired to live in light of death because of death. Fong examines how the participants’ embrace of self-sovereignty and confrontation of mortality revive their awareness of and appreciation for shared humanity. While divisive identity politics continue to foster neo-tribalisms and the construction of myriad “others,” Fong makes visible how those who participate in Death Cafés end up building community while being inspired toward living more fulfilling lives. Through death talk unfettered from systemic control, they end up feeling more agency over their own lived lives as well as being more conscious of the possibility of a good death. According to Fong, participants in this phenomenon offer us a sublime way to confront the facticity of our own demise—by gathering as one.
A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die
A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die write by Gail Rubin. This book was released on 2010-11. A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rubin provides the information, inspiration, and tools to plan and implement creative, meaningful, and memorable end-of-life rituals for people and pets.
The New Natural Death Handbook
The New Natural Death Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Natural Death Handbook write by Nicholas Albery. This book was released on 2009-04-13. The New Natural Death Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today, an increasing number of people want to organise at least part of a funeral for themselves, without depending on funeral directors. The New Natural Death Handbook shows you how to do everything from ordering a coffin to hiring a horse-drawn hearse to finding a woodland burial ground (where a tree is planted for each grave instead of having a headstone). It also explains how to arrange a burial on private land and how to set up a woodland burial ground as a business or charity.
The Revival of Death
The Revival of Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Revival of Death write by Tony Walter. This book was released on 1994. The Revival of Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The current revival of interest in death seeks ultimate authority in the individual self. This is the first book to comprehensively examine this revival and relate it to theories of modernity and postmodernity.
Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner)
Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner) write by Michael Hebb. This book was released on 2018-10-02. Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed founder of Death over Dinner offers a practical, inspiring guide to life's most difficult yet important conversation. Of the many critical conversations we will all have throughout our lifetime, few are as important as the ones discussing death—and not just the practical considerations, such as DNRs and wills, but what we fear, what we hope, and how we want to be remembered. Yet few of these conversations are actually happening. Inspired by his experience with his own father and countless stories from others who regret not having these conversations, Michael Hebb cofounded Death Over Dinner—an organization that encourages people to pull up a chair, break bread, and really talk about the one thing we all have in common. Death Over Dinner has been one of the most effective end-of-life awareness campaigns to date; in just three years, it has provided the framework and inspiration for more than a hundred thousand dinners focused on having these end-of-life conversations. As Arianna Huffington said, "We are such a fast-food culture, I love the idea of making the dinner last for hours. These are the conversations that will help us to evolve." Let's Talk About Death (over Dinner) offers keen practical advice on how to have these same conversations—not just at the dinner table, but anywhere. There's no one right way to talk about death, but Hebb shares time—and dinner—tested prompts to use as conversation starters, ranging from the spiritual to the practical, from analytical to downright funny and surprising. By transforming the most difficult conversations into an opportunity, they become celebratory and meaningful—ways that not only can change the way we die, but the way we live.
