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But in the industrialised West, communities of support are collapsing. Our spiritual institutions, practices and beliefs have been denuded by centuries of disenchantment. This may suggest that technological modernity, with its commitment to scientific rationalism, is to blame for the Western world’s often-impoverished relationship to death.
Amy Kurzweil • Are chatbots of the dead a brilliant idea or a terrible one? | Aeon Essays
Try to unlearn the obsessive fear of death (and the anxious quest for death avoidance) that pervades linear thinking in nearly every modern society. The ancients knew that, without periodic decay and death, nature cannot complete its full round of biological and social change. Without plant death, weeds would strangle the forest. Without human deat... See more
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
over the last decade is a step in the right direction, most Americans lack basic knowledge of the dying process. Combine this with an absence of meaningful conversation regarding the emotional and spiritual significance of death and one can see why the work of bringing the subject into the light is so important.
Amy Wright Glenn • Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
What’s really morbid, from this perspective, is what most of us do, most of the time, instead of confronting our finitude, which is to indulge in avoidance and denial, or what Heidegger calls “falling.” Rather than taking ownership of our lives, we seek out distractions, or lose ourselves in busyness and the daily grind, so as to try to forget our
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
in trade magazines like The Shroud, The Western Undertaker, and The Sunnyside.
Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Many People Have A Fear Of Aging; These Helpers Ask: What If We Aged With Joy Instead?
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