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Mass Death Moments

April 08, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman Sadly, human history is full of examples of “mass death,” often tied to war and disease, that are usually pivotal periods for living communities.

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Mortality Now: Top 5 Reminders of Death for Aging Baby Boomers

April 23, 2016 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman Memento Mori. Remember, you will die. Not a pleasant thought, yet one that has universal application because it is an unavoidable truth. The vanity of life, the nature of impermanence, the transient quality of existence. You get the point.

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Seven Questions for Ted Smith

November 13, 2015 Leave a Comment
“Tragic Prelude,” a mural portion by John Steuart Curry, in the Kansas Statehouse, 1937–42.

The deepest roots of this book, Weird John Brown, are in my attempts to think about how to live as a white man in a United States that is so deeply disfigured by slavery and its legacies. 

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Funereal Choices

February 26, 2015 Leave a Comment
My Fathers Funeral

Gary Laderman  “What do you want done with your body when you die?” This is a question I never fail to get from undergraduates in my college Death and Dying course. I’ve taught the class at Emory for roughly twenty years, and after a semester spent exploring attitudes toward death and mortuary practices over time and around the globe, students are most curious about this: the ultimate questions—not in theory, but in real life. My real life.

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