Articles and Literature on Death: A First Meeting

December 14th, 1993  |  by  |  published in Life and Death Potluck Group Archive | Comments Off on Articles and Literature on Death: A First Meeting

First meeting of the Life and Death Potluck Group with a potpourri of articles and literature on Death.

A Discussion of The Troubled Dream of Life

March 8th, 1994  |  by  |  published in Life and Death Potluck Group Archive | Comments Off on A Discussion of The Troubled Dream of Life

Discussion of Daniel Callahan’s new book, The Troubled Dream of Life, led by Sharon Kaufman.

The Troubled Dream of Life

May 12th, 1994  |  by  |  published in Life and Death Potluck Group Archive | Comments Off on The Troubled Dream of Life

Further discussion of The Troubled Dream of Life with the author, Daniel Callahan, Director and Co-founder of The Hastings Center.

How We Die

July 14th, 1994  |  by  |  published in Life and Death Potluck Group Archive | Comments Off on How We Die

Discussion of Sherwin Nuland’s new book, How We Die, led by William Bouwsma, UCB Emeritus Professor of History.

Death Scenes Across Cultures and Time

September 22nd, 1994  |  by  |  published in Life and Death Potluck Group Archive | Comments Off on Death Scenes Across Cultures and Time

Death scenes across cultures and time. Discussion of readings led by Thomas Laqueur, UCB Professor of History.

The Jewish Perspective on Death

February 9th, 1995  |  by  |  published in Life and Death Potluck Group Archive | Comments Off on The Jewish Perspective on Death

The Jewish perspective on death, with guests David Biale (Professor, Center for Jewish Studies and the Graduate Theological Union), Ranna Kabatznick (psychologist), Laurie Zoloth-Dorfman, Joanna Weinberg, Rabbi Stuart Kelman.

Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Death in North America and Japan

April 17th, 1995  |  by  |  published in Life and Death Potluck Group Archive | Comments Off on Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Death in North America and Japan

Discussion of the paper “Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Death in North America and Japan” with its author Margaret Lock, medical anthropologist from the Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University.

The Islamic Perspective on Death

November 1st, 1995  |  by  |  published in Life and Death Potluck Group Archive | Comments Off on The Islamic Perspective on Death

The Islamic perspective on death, with guest Ira Lapidus, UCB Professor of History and former Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCB.

The Buddhist Perspective on Death

December 6th, 1995  |  by  |  published in Life and Death Potluck Group Archive | Comments Off on The Buddhist Perspective on Death

The Buddhist perspective on death, with guests Huston Smith (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Religion, MIT, Syracuse U. and Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union), Kendra Smith (retired psychotherapist), Yvonne Rand (long-time Zen Buddhist priest), and Richard MacIntyre (Professor of Nursing at Merritt College of Nursing).

The Christian Perspective on Death

December 13th, 1995  |  by  |  published in Life and Death Potluck Group Archive | Comments Off on The Christian Perspective on Death

The Christian perspective on death, with guest Father Owen Carroll, Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary’s College and Professor of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union’s Dominican College.

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