Death, dying, and the afterlife : lessons from world cultures
Format:
Video disc
Title:
Death, dying, and the afterlife : lessons from world cultures
ISBN:
9781629972459
Publication:
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2016]
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Series title(s):
General Note:
"Course no. 6822."
12 lectures in 2 volumes / 30 minutes per lecture on each DVD.
Contents:
Disc 1. Death's place in our lives ; 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.