Embracing Life and Death. Volume 1, Insights on Living, Dying, and Death Education / edited by Kenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tobin, Kenneth George, 1944- editor.

Alexakos, Konstantinos, editor.

Series:

Bold visions in educational research ; Volume 82.

Bold Visions in Educational Research Series ; Volume 82

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death.

Thanatology.

Conduct of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2025]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Figures

Notes on Contributors

1. Perspectives on Mortality and Education

Abstract

Keywords

1 Exploring Diverse Lenses on Mortality

2 Diverse Narratives on Mortality

3 Embracing Mortality in Education and Care

Reference

2. Understanding Life's End

1 Exploring Mortality and Ethical Living

2 The Role of Death Education

3 Research as a Life Skill

4 Multilogicality: Learning from Difference

4.1 Authentic Inquiry

4.2 Event Oriented Inquiry

5 Using Heuristics to Frame Expansive Research

6 Contemplation &amp

Reflexivity: Understanding and Adjusting Habitus

6.1 Staying Present

6.2 Mastery through Repetition

6.3 Cultural Production through Learning

6.4 The Dual Nature of Habitus

6.5 Building New Habitus for Transformation

6.6 The Role of Contemplative Resources

7 Transcendence

Note

References

3. A Sociology of My Death

1 Editors' Prologue

1.1 How Facing Death Has Shown Me New Ways to Teach with Compassion

2 Interdependence

3 Social Interactions

4 Inequality

5 Impermanence

6 Coda

Notes

4. Rediscovering the Deathbed

1 COVID-19

2 Discovering Death

3 A Historical Perspective

4 A Deathbed Defined

5 Confronting My Own Mortality

6 Staring Death in the Face

7 Truly an Orphan

8 Living with Death Over Our Left Shoulder

9 A Medical Death

10 My First Deathbed-Accepting the Inevitable

11 Letting Go

12 Fighting for Life

13 Dying on Your Own Terms

14 Embracing Death

15 Turning Away from Death

16 Alone in the End

17 Lessons for the Road

5. Reimagining the Boundaries of Life and Death

1 Exploring Death to Transform How We Live

2 Death within Context.

3 My Experience with Life | Death

4 Life | Death within American Society

4.1 Retirement as a Death

5 Reimagining Life | Death

6. Put That Knife Down

1 Rising Challenges of Depression in Thailand

2 Prologue: Before the Depression

3 Personal Experiences with Depression

4 From a Non-Believer to a Believer

5 Searching for the Right School and Teacher

6 Luangpor Pramote Pamojjo

7 The Knife

8 Practice Putting the Knife Down

9 Moral Practice

10 Daily Mindfulness and Samadhi Practice

11 Formal Mindfulness and Samadhi Practice

12 Lesson Learned

7. Living Life after Depression

1 Challenges of Living with Depression

2 Reborn

3 Restart as a Child Again

4 Research Inside

5 Resignation

6 Relearn

7 Face Reality

8 Self-Reflection

8. Living and Dying a Good Life

1 Collaborating for the Higher Good

2 The Formative Years-Allah, Krishna, Jesus

2.1 My Journey to the Middle Path Starts in the Middle East

2.2 Morality (Sila) Is Important for Samatha and Vipassana Meditation Techniques

2.3 Karma

2.4 Karma and Death

2.5 Energy Healing and Psychic Power

3 Exit from China

4 Learning from Luangpor Pramote Pamojjo

5 Perspectives on Death

6 Releasing the Fear of Death

7 Transcending Let It Go and Allowing it to Flow

8 Let's Break It Down

9 Multi-Faith Resources for Learning to Die

10 Being in an Informed Manner

9. Right Action Is Its Own Reward

10. Conceiving the Inconceivable … and Then What?

11. Honoring Impermanence

1 The Universal Meets the Sacred

2 Walking Away, Yet Towards

3 Transforming Fear.

4 Facing Fear

5 Releasing Control

6 Pure Heart

12. Buddhist Perspectives of Animal Hospice and Transition to the Spiritual Home

1 The Life Journey

2 A Nun's Unwavering Commitment to Temple Stray Animals' Transition to Their Spiritual Home

3 Black Cat Mom

4 Creating the Karmic Conditions for Rebirth in a Better Realm through Reciting the Buddha's Name and Listening to the Buddha's Chants

5 Recitation of Buddhist Scriptures and Preparation for the End of Life for Animals' Transition to a Spiritual Home Preparation

5.1 The Dog Pointed at the Dharma Chanting Machine

6 Relationships between the Dharma and the Realm of Auspicious Rebirth

6.1 Theravada Tipitaka

6.2 Mahayana Tipitaka

6.3 Important Messages from the Six Stories

7 Animal's Palliative Care and Rebirth in Realms of Happiness

8 Karma, Rebirth and Destination after Life Journey

9 Xiao Guai's Final Day, A Tale of Compassion, Spiritual Transition, and the Echoes of Dharma

10 Enhancing End-of-Life Care for Animals, Shaping near Death Karma and Cultivating Favorable Realms

10.1 The Important Passages from Xiao Guai and Black Cat Mom's Stories

10.2 Euthanasia of Pets

13. When Eudemonia Meets Impermanence

14. A Source of Peace

1 The Pedagogical Role of Intersections in Sanskrit Tradition: An Overview

2 Introductory Context for Death Education in Post-Confined Society

2.1 Death Awareness and the Paradigm of Liberation

3 Stories and Verses from Sanskrit Texts

3.1 Listening Stories of Wisdom in the Forest

3.2 That You Are: Tat Tvam Asi

3.3 The Battlefield of Everyday Life

4 Death and Joy in Abhinavagupta's Verses

4.1 The Experiences of Death Awareness and Intense Joy.

5 Roaming around Our Life's Purpose: A Sort of Conclusion

15. Insights from Death Park

1 To Be Born Is a Primary Cause of Death

2 Toward a Spiritual Frame for Life

2.1 Be Good or You'll Go to Hell

2.2 The Re-Emergence of Buddhist Perspectives

3 Learning about Death

3.1 Nepalese Experiences

3.2 A Traffic Accident That Could Have Been Much Worse

4 Acquaintance with Death at the Age of Four

4.1 Suffering Is the Greatest Teacher

4.2 My First Acquaintance with Meditation

5 Educate Others about the Way You Want to Die

5.1 An Unlikely Scenario-Discussions about Dying and Death in Pre-K Education

6 Diverse Perspectives on Dying and Death

6.1 Plaque 1: In Death, You Don't Die-Osho

6.2 Plaque 2: Meditation &amp

Death-Osho

6.3 Plaque 3: When Will You Think about Death?-Osho

6.4 Plaque 4: Death Is a Beautiful Rest, a Benediction-Osho

6.5 Plaque 5: Death Can Happen at Any Moment-Osho

6.6 Plaque 6: Death, the Only Certainty in Life-Osho

6.7 Plaque 7: Life and Death-Mahatma Gandhi

6.8 Plaque 8: I Am the Deathless Spirit-Sri Raman Maharshi

6.9 Plaque 9: Death Is Not Terrible ...-Swami Yoganand

7 Visions of the Future

7.1 On My Deathbed!

7.2 I'm Still Alive but Not to the World!

7.3 Educating about Dying and Death

8 Beyond a Vision of Life's Purposes-We Can do More

16. In Preparation of Emotional Well-being through Narrative Reflection

1 The Traffic of Life (To a Dying Mother)

2 Storge

3 The Depth of Devghat

4 In a Mother's Memory

17. Ruminations on Life, Aging, and Death

1 Mother / Mountains

2 Baker

3 Martin in Autumn

18. Running Marathons

1 Моя любимая мамочка

Notes.

19. Changing Views on the Process of Dying

1 Changing Views on the Process of Dying

2 Questioning What Happens When a Person Dies

3 When My Grandfather Died

4 An Unexpected Death

5 Learning about Different Perspectives of Dying and Death

6 Insights about Finding My Soul and Understanding Dying and Death

7 Learning about Near Death and Death Experiences

8 Facing Another Possible Death

9 The Expansion of My Beliefs about Death and Dying

10 Coda

20. Navigating Life's Final Passage

1 The Practice of P'howa: How to Better Your Exit

2 Historical and Ethnographic Background

3 P'howa: Seeking a Safe Haven for the Greater Good

4 How to Relate Such Practices to Benefiting a Dying Person

5 Questions and Answers

5.1 So, What Is the Purpose of Life?

5.2 How Does Buddhism Assist with the Challenge of Dying Well?

5.3 How Do These Perspectives Help You Personally?

5.4 How Did You become Interested in P'howa as a Practice?

5.5 How Do You Envision Your Next Life?

5.6 Are There Any Dangers Associated with the Practice of P'howa?

5.7 What Benefit Do You Derive with P'howa?

21. Reflections on the End of Life

1 Bridging Life and Afterlife through Educational Insights

2 Researching Education for Dying and Death

2.1 Educating for Death and Dying Heuristic (EDDH)

Further characteristics include:

Characteristics of Education:

Questions on Dying:

3 Diverse Perspectives in Research on Death Education

3.1 Enhancing Educational Research through Diverse Methodologies and Integration with Large Language Models

3.2 Using ChatGPT

3.3 Creating Simulated Narratives from EDDH Data with Assistance from ChatGPT

4 Simulated Narratives for Four Diverse Cases.

4.1 Everett's Story: Reflections on Life's Continuum.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-72051-0