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Friday, January 24, 2014

Confronting Mortality

Confronting Mortality: Faith and Meaning across Cultures

Wednesday, February 5, 2014 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
The New York Academy of Sciences
Presented by The Nour Foundation, The New York Academy of Sciences, and Wisconsin Public Radio's nationally-syndicated programTo the Best of Our Knowledge
This event is part of the Rethinking Mortality series.
Despite advances in technology and medicine, death itself remains an immutable certainty. Indeed, the acceptance and understanding of our mortality is one of the enduring metaphysical challenges that have confronted human beings from the beginning of time. How have we sought to cope with the inevitability of our mortality? How do various cultural and social representations of mortality shape and influence the way in which we understand and approach death? To what extent do personal beliefs and convictions about the meaning of life or the notion of an “afterlife” impact how we perceive and experience the process of death and dying? Psychologist Lani Leary, professor of philosophy and religion Jeff Kripal, and sociologist Allan Kellehear come together to share a multicultural perspective on death, dying, and what lies beyond.
*Reception to follow.

Featuring

Allan Kellehear, PhD
Professor of Community Health, School of Health and Education, Middlesex University
Author of A Social History of Dying
Jeffrey J. Kripal, PhD
J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University
Associate Director of the Center for Theory and Research, Esalen Institute
Lani Leary, PhD
Psychotherapist
Author of No One Has to Die Alone — Preparing for a Meaningful Death

Moderator

Steve Paulson
Executive Producer, Wisconsin Public Radio's nationally-syndicated program To the Best of Our Knowledge

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