A Study on the life and death studies in Hwang Seok-young's novel Baridegi

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 209-232
Author(s):  
Hae-rang Park
Keyword(s):  
Life And Death ◽  
Death Studies

Altruism: Reflections on a Neglected Aspect in Death Studies

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus P. Jankofsky ◽  
Uwe H. Stuecher
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Clinical Experiences ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Death Studies ◽  
Infinite Variety ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Modern Hospital

Growing out of the authors' previous studies of death (Jankofsky's in literature and in historical documents primarily of the medieval period, and Stuecher's of clinical experiences with terminally ill children and adolescents), this cooperative interdisciplinary article identifies and discusses altruism as a basic trait of human character and behavior and explores its possible implications for the dying person. Altruism can be studied as a phenomenon which is like the “good death/bad death” topos of medieval chroniclers, thus permitting comparative evaluations over long periods of time and in different socioeconomic and political structures. As a trait observable in both the daily realities of a modern hospital setting and in the literary-aesthetic representation of human society and its values in medieval and modern literature, altruism is a part of the infinite variety of humanity's perceptions, activities, and experiences that make up the mosaic of life and death.

scholarly journals From Becoming-Woman to Becoming-Imperceptible: Self-Styled Death and Virtual Female Corpse in Digital Portraits of Cancer

2019 ◽  
pp. 86-106
Author(s):  
Katja Herges
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Female Subjectivity ◽  
Individual Life ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Death Studies

Contemporary textual and visual representations of cancer engage self-reflectively with death and dying, yet they often rely on normative notion of death as the end of an individual life. This article focuses on stylised cancer portraits of the young German Nana Stäcker which she took in collaboration with her mother and professional photographers during her chemotherapy and until her death. Intervening in the field of Queer Death Studies this article explores if and how these images allow us to rethink normative Western notions of death. Drawing on Rosi Braidotti’s posthuman theory of death and of female subjectivity, I argue that the photo shoots recast Nana’s illness and dying as a gendered and creative process of subject formation beyond individual death. Through creating aestheticised and eroticised camp images, Nana playfully performs und subverts a range of iconic Western femininities and styles both life and death as a constant becoming. Portraits of Nana as virtual female corpse further highlight this continuity of life and death by reinserting death into life. While these images resist a necropolitical engagement with cancer and dying, they suggest an impersonal and affirmative understanding of death that opens up bioethical questions about contemporary cultures of longevity and health. 

Friends in Life and Death

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Vann ◽  
David Eversley
Keyword(s):  
Life And Death

Humanizing time, love, life, and death: An allegory set between the eternities.

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Farley ◽  
Debbie Joffe Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Life And Death ◽  
Love Life
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