Embracing Life and Death

Insights on Living, Dying, and Death Education (Volume 1)

Kenneth Tobin, Konstantinos Alexakos (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

318 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004424289 (ISBN)

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Embracing Life and Death explores ethical living, terminal illness, and death education. It integrates diverse cultural perspectives and emphasizes the importance of acknowledging mortality for compassionate, mindful living. Ideal for educational and care institutions, it promotes empathy and understanding.

Embracing Life and Death breaks the silence surrounding death, offering a comprehensive exploration into ethical living, terminal illness, and death education. Featuring contributions from 20 distinguished authors, this volume weaves personal narratives and academic research to understand life's final journey. Through authentic inquiry and participatory research, the authors underscore the importance of acknowledging mortality to enhance life's choices, fostering compassion and mindful living. The book integrates diverse cultural and religious perspectives, highlighting spiritual practices, palliative care, and the transformative potential of large language models like ChatGPT.

This resource is ideal for universities, K-12 schools, hospitals, palliative care and hospice centers, nursing homes, multi-faith churches, libraries, age-restricted communities, and home care providers. Embracing Life and Death is a call to action for ongoing dialogue and exploration, encouraging readers to reflect on their beliefs and engage in a compassionate, global conversation on mortality. This essential read promotes a nuanced appreciation of life and death, advocating for a more intentional and enriched human experience.

Contributors are: Dimitris Alexakos, Konstantinos Alexakos, Wladina Antoine Alexakos, Mitch Bleier, Chia-ju Chang, Piyanate Chuychai, Gene Fellner, Ranjit Gopi, Leonard Herczeg, Badri K. C., Vickie Karkazis, Peter Kaufman, Anna Malyukova, Xicoténcatl Martínez Ruiz, Eleanor A. Miele, Kashi Raj Pandey, Orest Pelechaty, Kenneth Tobin, Taya Wanasen, and Jo-I Wu.

Kenneth Tobin, Presidential Professor Emeritus at CUNY Graduate Center, taught high school science for a decade before holding university positions in Australia and the U.S. His research focuses on contemplative practices, wellness, and energy-related treatments for human pathology. Konstantinos Alexakos, Professor at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, coordinates Adolescence Science Education. His research addresses teaching, learning, emotions, wellness, and critical social issues like race, gender, and sexuality to enhance well-being and education.

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors

1 Perspectives on Mortality and Education
Kenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos

2 Understanding Life's End: A Journey of Awareness and Research
Kenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos

3 A Sociology of My Death
Peter Kaufman

4 Rediscovering the Deathbed
Eleanor Miele

5 Reimagining the Boundaries of Life and Death
Dimitris Antoine Alexakos

6 Put That Knife Down: A Journey on How Buddhist Practices Saved My Life from Depression
Taya Wanasen

7 Living Life after Depression: Through a Lens of a Mindfulness Practitioner
Piyanate Chuychai

8 Living and Dying a Good Life
Ranjit Gopi

9 Right Action Is Its Own Reward
Gene Fellner

10 Conceiving the Inconceivable... and Then What? A Response to Ranjit Gopi
Mitch Bleier

11 Honoring Impermanence
Vickie Karkazis

12 Buddhist Perspectives of Animal Hospice and Transition to the Spiritual Home
Jo-I Wu

13 When Eudemonia Meets Impermanence: A Zen Perspective on Liberation
Chia-ju Chang

14 A Source of Peace: Death and Joy in Sanskrit Texts
Xicoténcatl Martínez Ruiz

15 Insights from Death Park: Dialogues on Life and Death
Kashi Raj Pandey, Badri K. C. and Kenneth Tobin

16 In Preparation of Emotional Wellbeing through Narrative Reflection: Reflecting Death and Dying from a Compassionate Proximity
Kashi Raj Pandey

17 Ruminations on Life, Aging, and Death
Leonard Herczeg

18 Running Marathons: A Letter to my Mother
Anna Malyukova

19 Changing Views on the Process of Dying
Wladina Antoine Alexakos

20 Navigating Life's Final Passage: The Practice of P'howa
Orest Pelechaty

21 Reflections on the End of Life: A Multicultural Examination through Death Education
Kenneth Tobin

22 Faith & Farewell: A Family Navigates Life's Final Decisions
Kenneth Tobin

23 Utilizing LLM s in Research on Dying, Mortality, and the Afterlife
Kenneth Tobin

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Bold Visions in Educational Research
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	541 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-13	9789004424289 / 9789004424289
Zustand	Neuware