“Death Styles: Three Lives/Three Final Pathways,” a video presentation/discussion by Dr. Michael Thaler, Professor of Pediatrics at UC San Francisco and historian.

“Island Mysteries,” a discussion with Christina Gillis, Associate Director of the Townsend Center, about the importance of ‘place’ for the dead and the living.

“The Cremated Catholic: A Tale of One Dead Body in Two Countries,” presentation by and discussion with Stanley Brandes, UCB Professor of Anthropology, about the religious and social consequences of an accidental cremation.

“To Die Well,” performance of a new play about death by poet/playwright Jim Schevill.

Katherine Sherwood, UC Berkeley Professor of Art Practice, discussed with us her experience of an intimate encounter with her own mortality (a stroke), how this has affected her art, and how art helped her to recover.

“Death and Narrative,” a presentation with video by Katharine Young, philosopher and anthropologist, analyzing the relationship of gestures to emotion in narrative – specifically a “grief narrative” of a woman’s remembrance of her mother’s death.

Discussion of “The Lives of Animals,” J.M. Coetze’s Princeton lectures on our human abuse of animals.

Presentation and discussion of segments of Bill Moyers’s public television 4-part series on death in America (“On Our Own Terms”).