Dying Livingly
by Staci Bu Shea ; series editor Ingo Niermann
- Author(s)
- Staci Bu Shea
- Editor(s)
- Ingo Niermann
- Publication
- London : Sternberg, 2024
- Scope
- 144 Pages, illustrated, 18 cm.
Part studious, part visceral, Dying Livingly is a collection of short essays written in the first few years of the author’s holistic deathcare research and practice. With a focus on the truth of impermanence and the material cultures of death and dying, the writer, curator and death doula Bu Shea reaches toward a future of compassionate, community-centered deathcare. If death is an amplification of living, the attention here is on bearing witness to life in and around the dying and the potential to contribute to a more vibrant culture of care. Living a death-oriented life is not simply for those and their loved ones navigating a terminal diagnosis and finite amount of time to live; it is for all of us. Death awareness leads to a valuing of life, which is urgently needed for justice, healing, and our livability.
- Keywords
- justice
- Location
- Cabinet 30 - 3: Kunst en Rechtspraak
