Death, Dying, and the Afterlife: Lessons from World Cultures
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It's a universal truth: Everyone-including you-will eventually die. Other forms of life on our planet will also die, but we might be the only living creatures who cannot help but contemplate our own mortality. After thousands of years of pondering it, we still find death one of life's most perplexing mysteries-yet it doesn't have to be the most frightening.

Death serves as the horizon against which our lives unfold and shapes the choices we make about how to live. In fact, the knowledge of mortality has inspired much of human activity-religion, philosophy, music and visual arts, even scientific endeavors and monumental architecture have all been driven by our understanding of death. Whether viewed as a transition to paradise or punishment, an ultimate separation or ecstatic joining, the end of existence or the beginning of a new way of being, many cultures have learned to see death as a window into the true meaning of life. The subject, therefore, deserves our close consideration.

Death, Dying, and the Afterlife: Lessons from World Cultures is an uplifting, meaningful, and multidisciplinary exploration of life's only certainty. While we're predisposed to look on death with fear and sadness, it's only by confronting and exploring death head-on that we can actually embrace the important role it plays in our lives. Death, it turns out, is a powerful teacher, one that can help us

think responsibly and deeply about the meaning and value of life;
connect with the beliefs and traditions of cultures and faiths different from our own;
gain the wisdom and guidance to live a richer, more fulfilling life while we have it.

As religion scholar and award-winning Professor Mark Berkson of Hamline University says, "Reflecting on death and dying is an essential part of the examined life." Take a wide-ranging look at this undeniably confounding and fascinating subject. Bringing together theology, philosophy, biology, anthropology, literature, psychology, sociology, and other fields, these 24 lectures are a brilliant compendium of how human beings have struggled to come to terms with mortality. You'll encounter everything from ancient burial practices, traditional views of the afterlife, and the five stages of grief to the question of killing during wartime, the phenomenon of near-death experiences, and even 21st-century theories about transcending death itself. Prepare for a remarkable learning experience that brings you face-to-face with the most important topic mortals like us can consider.

Get Answers to Profound Questions about Death

"Thinking about death is not simply the price we have to pay for a fuller, more honest understanding of our lives," says Professor Berkson. "Reflecting on death can have a remarkably positive effect on one's life."

With personal and cultural enlightenment as the overarching goal, his lectures provide you with comprehensive, eye-opening answers to several major questions surrounding the topic of death.

How do we think and feel about death? Several lectures are devoted to the ways we conceptualize and form attitudes about death-as good, as bad, or as nothing at all. Topics you'll explore include common symbols of death, different medical and spiritual definitions of death, the phenomenon of death denial, and the rationality of fearing our eventual death.
How do we experience death? Emphasizing the fields of sociology, anthropology, and psychology, you'll get an in-depth look at how human beings from a cross-section of cultures and traditions experience death-both their own and that of loved ones. How do different people cope with grief in different ways? What are the backstories behind various burial rituals? What does it mean to die well?
How do religions approach death and what comes after? A major part of this course is devoted to comparing and contrasting Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian attitudes toward death. You'll learn how these great world faiths explain the existence of death, their beliefs regarding what happens to us after we die (including various manifestations of paradise and hell), their rituals for handling corpses, and much more.
When (if ever) is it justified to take a life? You'll also get an opportunity to plunge into the fierce debates over the deliberate taking of a human life, whether through suicide, euthanasia, or warfare. In all cases, Professor Berkson presents both sides of the argument, giving you the cultural background and information you need to better understand others' opinions and beliefs, and to better support-or revise-your own.
How important is death to our understanding of our humanity? Spend time focusing on what natural science has revealed about death and the process of dying-and the possibility of somehow transcending or avoiding death entirely. Also, probe historical efforts to extend human life, and ponder the ethical and social dilemmas of immortality.

Lectures:
TTC6822 S01E01 Death's Place in Our Lives.mp4
TTC6822 S01E02 Defining Death.mp4
TTC6822 S01E03 Death, Illusion, and Meaning.mp4
TTC6822 S01E04 Is It Rational to Fear Death.mp4
TTC6822 S01E05 Understanding and Coping with Grief.mp4
TTC6822 S01E06 Death Rituals and the Corpse.mp4
TTC6822 S01E07 American Death Rituals.mp4
TTC6822 S01E08 Approaches to Dying Well.mp4
TTC6822 S01E09 Judaism on Death and the Afterlife.mp4
TTC6822 S01E10 Death and Hope in Christianity.mp4
TTC6822 S01E11 Islam on Returning to God.mp4
TTC6822 S01E12 Death, Rebirth, and Liberation in Hinduism.mp4
TTC6822 S01E13 Buddhism on Impermanence and Mindfulness.mp4
TTC6822 S01E14 The Process of Dying in Tibetan Buddhism.mp4
TTC6822 S01E15 Confucian Remembrance, Daoist Forgetting.mp4
TTC6822 S01E16 Death and Syncretism in China.mp4
TTC6822 S01E17 Suicide Examined.mp4
TTC6822 S01E18 The Choice of Euthanasia.mp4
TTC6822 S01E19 Killing in War and the Pacifist Challenge.mp4
TTC6822 S01E20 Considering Capital Punishment.mp4
TTC6822 S01E21 Killing Non-Human Animals.mp4
TTC6822 S01E22 Near-Death Experiences.mp4
TTC6822 S01E23 The Pursuit of Immortality.mp4
TTC6822 S01E24 The Value of Death.mp4

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