Great Courses "Course no. 6822." 12 lectures in 2 volumes / 30 minutes per lecture on each DVD. Accompanying course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-226). Lecturer: Professor Mark Berkson, Hamline University.
Contents:
Disc 4. The value of death. Defining death ; Death, illusion, and meaning ; Is it rational to fear death ; Understanding and coping with grief ; Death rituals and the corpse -- Disc 2. 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 -- Disc 3. 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 -- Disc 4. 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.
Summary:
Explore how great faiths, philosophies, and cultures all over the world perceive death -- and existence -- in these life-affirming lectures.
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