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In her report on Torajan death practices, National Geographic author Amanda Bennett writes, “[T]he death of the body isn’t the abrupt, final severing event of the West. Instead, death is just one step in a long, gradually unfolding process.”
Amy Wright Glenn • Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
Instead of offering new spiritual resources, our technocultures seem to provide us with a vast array of ingenious instruments to help us turn away from death: we have medicine to postpone, entertainment to soothe, drugs to stupefy, and other technologies to help us avoid and ignore. The average person is at once inundated with stylised images of pe... See more
Amy Kurzweil • Are chatbots of the dead a brilliant idea or a terrible one? | Aeon Essays
Moreover, the studies show that thinking about death and how we want to be remembered when we are gone can have enormous social benefits by helping to forge a sense of intergenerational care and responsibility. This is very much counter to the culture of death denial that pervades Western society. We expend enormous energy shielding ourselves from
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