What is more being than non-being? What is more universally and collectively human and ontology (the study of human beings in and with the world) than the interrelationship with death?
Death is the one part of life that is known and assured in advanced when birth takes place. It is the one thing that connects and interrelates all living things. It is the one sure thing in life. Life means death. When you are born it means you will die sometimes within the next hundred years (Camus). If you are than you will not be. When you will not, you were. This is universal and the one thing in life that is assured (Sartre; Heidegger; Camus). Dying means you were and existed so death means life and non-being means being.
Studying death, the way it is conveyed, expressed, treated, revered, feared and seen reflects a lot on the study of human beings and human existence within all the disciplines - it really is a transdisciplinary study that uses, interrelates and crosses al disciplines.
It is the sure thing in life. Life means death. When you are born it means you will die sometimes within the next hundred years (Camus).
This is universal and the one thing in life that is assured (Sartre; Heidegger; Camus). Dying means that you were, that you existed, so death means life and non-being means being.
Studying death, the way it is conveyed, expressed, treated, revered, feared and seen reflects a lot on the study of human beings and human existence.
How is death viewed by and in different cultures and disciplines?
What is death according to and in different cultures and disciplines?
What are the most frequent causes of death in different countries, areas, socio-economic groups, ethnicities? Why is that? Quantitative Statistics to be interpreted? What do these numbers mean?
Qualitative analysis of history, psychology, anthropology, economics?
Who dies where? Age, cause, gender?
The narratives of death and life? who died? why? where? When? How? What to do to stop unnatural early death? The narratives of grief and mourning. How do we mourn? How do we grieve?
Analysis of obituaries in different newspapers around the world and in different culture? Style, what was said and how?
Different ways of mourning in different culture? Mourning of death or celebrating life? Mandela’s death, how was it dealt with, why?
The Biology of the dialectics of Death and Life, The Physics of the dialectics of life and death, the Chemistry of the dialectics of life and death, the ecology, and earth science, of this dialectics. What does death mean within these disciplines? Death and life are interrelated and needed biologically, physically, ecologically and chemically. Death is required to sustain life.
The politics of death? How death was/is used politically, why, what for?
History, catharsis. Is death catharic?
Walter, T, Hourizi, R, concur, W and STACEY PitSillides (Forthcoming.) DOES THE INTERNET CHANGE HOW WE DIE AND MOURN? AN OVERVIEW. Forthcoming in Omega: Journal of Death & Dying
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Camus, A. (1942b). Le Mythe de Sisyphe: Essai sur l’Absurde : Paris. Gallimard.
Camus, A. (1971). Cahiers Albert Camus 1: La Mort Heureuse: Roman. Paris: Gallimard.
Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and Time. New York: Harper and Row.
Sartre, J. P. (1943a). L'Être et le Néant, Essai d’Ontologie Phénoménologique. Paris : Gallimard.
Sartre, J. P. (1947). Huis Clos. Paris: Editions Gallimard.
Sartre, J. P. (1952). L'Existentialisme est un Humanisme. Paris : Nagel.
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