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UNCCMoodle ▶ RELS-2109-001-Spring 2013-26455 Connect To Moodle 2 Logout

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My Courses

Search Forums

Go

Advanced search

Administration

Topic outline

Welcome to RELS 2109-001

DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFEMW 11:00-12:15 in Fretwell 121

Indian "Game of Heaven and Hell" (played like Chutes and Ladders)

News forum

SYLLABUS INFORMATIONGENERAL INFORMATION

Instructors

Course description and goals

Expectations

Required materials

Grading

Policies

Attendance record

Disability Services

ALL FALL 2013 COURSES ARE ATMOODLE2.UNCC.EDU

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UNCC Code of Academic Integrity

About the academic study of religion

ASSIGNMENTS Short paper assignments (THREE of four possible, due on

dates specified)

"Deathography" (due Monday, February 4th, before class)

Obituary (due Monday, February 25th, before class)

Dying and Death Arrangements (due Monday, March 25th,before class)

Movie Analysis Essay (due Monday, April 22nd, beforeclass)

Final project: Create a Board Game

Final project guidelines

Draft peer evaluation form (to be completed at the end of thesemester [names will be filled in])

CLICKERSSet your clicker to Channel 21 for our classroom. Register yourclicker now for all clicker-using courses.

Clickers and Academic Integrity

How to register a clicker in Moodle

How to Use Clickers at UNC Charlotte (IntroductoryVideo-2:39)

More UNCC clicker information

1 INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSEWednesday, January 9th

ASSIGNMENT FOR WEDNESDAY, January 9th

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Read Chidester, Patterns of Transcendence, "Religion, Death, andDying" chapter

"The School," by Donald Barthelme

Death Beliefs and Attitudes Class Survey (due by Monday,January 14th, at midnight))

RESOURCES Resource: Six Billion Human Beings: A Global Perspective

Resource: Encyclopedia of Death and Dying

Resource: Taphophilia

Resource: If you're brave, check out the "Death Clock"

Resource: Death: The Last Taboo

Resource: Timeline of Noteworthy Death Events (multi-page)

Resource: Many, many, many categorized links

Resource: Population Clock

On Being (podcast): Contemplating Mortality

Big Religion Chart (see afterlife beliefs column)

Interactive guide to causes of deeath in the U.S.

2 WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT DEATH AND DYING?Monday, January 14th and Wednesday, January 16th

NOTE: You are required to bring your clicker to class onWednesday (and every day thereafter). Kurt Richter from the

Center for Teaching and Learning will give us a tutorial for the firstpart of class on Wednesday.

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ASSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY, January 14th TED talk (13 minute video): Peter Saul, "Let's Talk About Dying"

ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, January 16th

Choose a few of the links below and delve into the information therein preparation for class on Wednesday. The "Resources" sections onthis site are for further information and are not required (you will notbe tested on this information). We do recommend you check out thelinks, however, for ideas for your final projects and because you justmight learn something.

RESOURCES Resource: How We Die: Views from Six Feet Under

Resource: "Queryable" death statistics for North Carolina

Resource: Rates of cremation by state

Resource: Mortality data from the CDC

Resource: Causes of death by accidental injury

Resource: Findings from the Pew Foundation (see relevantpages)

Cat predicts patient death - from New England Journal ofMedicine

Resource: "Years of Potential Life Lost" for North Carolina

Resource: Millennium Development Goals: Child Mortality2009 (chart)

Resource: London's Bill of Mortality (17th century)

So Many Dumb Ways to Die

Scared to Death . . . Literally

Podcast: Is There a Worst Way to Die?

Podcast: Bizarre Ways to Die

The mother of Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) - FrancesGlessner Lee

Death in Diorama

Of Dolls and Murder trailer

Of Doll and Murder - Netflix (optional)

HarvardMag article on Frances Glessner Lee

Official Blog of Glessner House Museum

Dollhouse images

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3 DEATH IN ASIAN CULTURESMonday, January 21st through Monday, January 28th

Monday, January 21st: NO CLASS (but see assignmentsbelow)

TED talk (6 minutes video): Candy Chang, "Before I Die I Want to. . . "

Optional: Create a class "Before I Die" virtual wall

This American Life (1-hour audio): "The Business of Death" (feelfree to skip "Act 4")

Thomas Nagel's "Death," in The Grim Reader, pp. 25-32

ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, January 23rd:Death in Buddhist Traditions

GUEST LECTURE with David Mozina of the Department ofReligious Studies (read Chidester, pp. 88-107)

ASSIGNMENTS for MONDAY, January 28th:Death in Southeast Asia

GUEST LECTURE with Dan White of the Department of ReligiousStudies on death in Hindu traditions (read Chidester pp. 75-88)

RESOURCES Documentary Film: The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of

LIfe

Hindu cremation

BBC "Bitsize" test revision: Death in various traditions

Hindu death rituals (somewhat graphic)

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Ten Extraordinary Burial Cememonies from around the world

Buddhist death beliefs and rituals

4 DEATH IN THE ANCIENT WORLDWednesday, January 30th, though Monday, February 11th

ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, January 30th:Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East

The Epic of Gilgamesh: Enkidu's Dream

Egyptian "Negative Confession"

Egyptian Land of Silence and Darkness

ASSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY, February 4th:Death and the Afterlife in Zoroastrianism

Crossing the Cinvat Bridge

ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, February 6th:Ancient Greek Views of the Afterlife from Homer to the

PlatonistsGUEST LECTURE by James Tabor, Chair of the Dept. ofReligious Studies on death in Ancient Greece and earlyChristianityEmily Vermeule, "A Very Active Dead," in The Grim Reader, pp.258-66

The Death of Socrates

Plato, The Myth of Er

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ASSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY, February 11th:Anthropology of death rituals

"Universal Fear of Death" article

RESOURCES Resource: Mummy Maker exercise

Building the Great Pyramid (lots of information)

Resource: An Artisan's Tomb from Ancient Egypt

Resource: Pyramid building game

Resource: Plan your journey to the Egyptian Afterlife

Resource: Egyptian Tombs: Life Along the Nile

Resource: Travel to the Egyptian Underworld

A description of the process of mummification

Some Background on Zoroastrianism

Vanishing Vultures a Grave Matter for India's Parsis

Some Background on Ancient Mesopotamian Religion andCulture

Burial customs, the afterlife and pollution

Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Ancient Greece

Death in Britain under Roman Empire

Roman religion gallery

Pictures of Etruscan tombs

5 DEATH IN ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONSWednesday, February 13th, through Wednesday, February 27th

ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, February 13th:

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Death and the afterlife in JudaismRead Chidester, pp. 145-69.

Passages from the Hebrew Bible

Passages from the Hebrew Bible: Ecclesiastes 8

Philip Roth, "Patrimony," in The Grim Reader, pp. 162-68

ASSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY, February 18th:GUEST LECTURE with Kathryn Johnson of the Dept. ofReligious Studies on death in Islam (read Chidester, pp. 178-88)

ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, February 19th:Death and afterlife in early Christianity

Read Chidester, pp. 169-78

Salvation and Damnation linked to Deeds (Matthew 7:13-23)

Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans

ASSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY, February 25th:Early and Medieval Christian Death and review for exam

OBITUARY DUE today before class (through assignment link neartop of the Moodle site)

Giovanni Boccaccio, "The Plague in Florence," in The Grim Reader,pp. 187-95

Carlos M. N. Eire, "From Madrid to Purgatory," in The Grim Reader,pp. 340-46

FIRST EXAM -- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27th -- FIRST EXAM

RESOURCESJEWISH DEATH

Jewish Funerals, Burial, and Mourning

ISLAMIC DEATH

Muslim views of death and afterlife

EARLY CHRISTIAN DEATH

Catacombs

The earliest Christian graves

A short history of depictions of the crucifixion of Jesus

MEDIEVAL DEATH

Take a tour of Anglo-Saxon burial grounds

Holy relics set to music

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All sorts of information about holy relics

Would you kill patients if you were a medieval doctor?

The End of the World?

Eyewitness accounts of the Black Death

Death in the Middle Ages

Relics and Reliquaries in Medieval Europe

Reliquaries for sale on eBay

The Black Plague: An Introduction

An article on relics and the internet

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Black Death

A medieval play in which "Everyman" is summoned by death

Pictures of The Plague

6 DEATH IN THE NEW WORLDMonday, March 11th, through Wednesday, March 20th

ASSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY, March 11th:Death in Colonial and Victorian America and Spiritualism

Rudolf Schafer, "Photographing the Dead," in The Grim Reader, pp.312-13

Burial Customs in American History

MONDAY, March 18th:Game workshops in teams, facilitated by undergrad TAs

Peer evaluation sheet

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ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, March 20th:Festivals for (and of) the Dead

Erwin Panofsky, "The Dangerous Dead," in The Grim Reader, pp.322-27

RESOURCESAMERICAN DEATH (GENERAL)

Causes of death in colonial America

Chronology of death in America

Victorian Mourning Customs (published 1901)

GRAVESTONES AND GRAVEYARDS

Tour a colonial American burial ground

Survey of Puritan gravestone types

About gravestone carving

Death in colonial Williamsburg

Can you establish a colony in the New World?

Symbols used in cemeteries

Ben and Jerry's "Flavor Graveyard"

A slave cemetery: "God's Little Acre"

Forever Dixie -- Southern Cemeteries

Guide to symbols used on gravestones

Farber Gravestone Collection

Guide to deciphering old gravestones

Photographs of dead soldiers (Civil War)

Funerary Architecture image collection

SPIRITUALISM

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's photographs of fairies

A Brief Article on Spiritualism

Spiritualist photography

About "spirit photography"

All sorts of information and a "paranormal" investigation

HALLOWEEN AND DAY OF THE DEAD

Corpses for sale! Halloween decorating ideas

Halloween video

The Origins of Halloween

More on Halloween

History.com on the origins of Halloween

Interactive haunted house

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The Real Story of Halloween (history.com)

Basics on the Day of the Dead

Really great site on Day of the Dead of the Smithsonian LatinoCenter

Some History on the Day of the Dead

On "pseudoscience"

7 AFTER DEATH OR AFTERLIFEMonday, March 25th, through Wednesday, April 8th

DEATH AND DYING ARRANGEMENTS - paper due today --MARCH 25th -- before class (through assignment link near top of

the Moodle site)

ASSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY, March 25th:Victorian Spiritualism, Near-Death Experiences and Quests for

Immortality Listen to Radiolab: After Life

Decoding The Mystery Of Near-Death Experiences (read orlisten)

TED talk: Mark Roth on suspended animation

TED talk: Aubrey de Grey on ending aging

ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, March 27th:Heaven, Hell, Limbo, and Purgatory

Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"(1741), excerpts

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Read David Eagleman's Sum, short essays titled Sum, Circle ofFriends, Descent of Species, Metamorphosis, Spirals, GreatExpectations, The Unnatural, Microbe, Absence, Will-o'-the-Wisp,Prism, Subjunctive, Search, and Reversal

ASSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY, April 1st:Game workshops in teams, facilitated by undergrad TAs

ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3rdDante's Divine Comedy and Hell Houses

Dante's Inferno, Canto III

Interview with the director of "Hell House" documentary

SECOND EXAM -- MONDAY, April 8th -- SECOND EXAM

Material covered from last exam through April 3rd. Format willbe IF-AT test, with both individual and group portions. This testwill be somewhat cumulative (it will ask you to make generalconnections across the course).

RESOURCESNEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES

Radiolab: After Life

Documentary Film: Through the Wormhole: Is There Life AfterDeath?

Near Death Experiences and the Afterlife

Near Death Experience Research Foundation

Why A Brush With Death Triggers The Slow-Mo Effect (listenor read)

Death Reference on near-death experiences

Watch one of these movies

Take "The Afterlife Test"

"The Ten Commandments" from "The Invention of Lying"

An article on Limbo and Purgatory

Views of contemporary Christian groups on the afterlife

Ascent to Heaven in Antiquity

Is There Sex in Heaven? One Viewpoint

"Reincarnation Station": What would you be in your next life?

Overview of beliefs in life after death

For the More Adventurous of you ... read parts of Dante's

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Divine Comedy

HELL

Map of Dante's Hell

Virtual Tour of Dante's Hell

Interactive "Danteworlds"

The World of Dante

Where would you end up in Dante's hell?

A philosophical consideration of the problem of hell

On the temperature of hell

One version of hell on earth

Hell in church architecture

A Teletubby in Hell

IMMORTALITY

This American Life: "Memo to the People of the Future"

Summum, a group at the center of a Supreme Court case, andmummification

"Why We Long for Immortality"

If you want your website to live on after you're gone ...

Cryonics

This American Life: "Mistakes Were Made," Act I

Anti-aging site

More anti-aging

Argument against immortality

"Transhumanism"

Documentary Film: Through the Wormhold: Can We LiveForever?

Documentary Film; The Way of All Flesh

How to Post to Facebook, Twitter After You Die

8 CONTEMPORARY DEATHWednesday, April 10th, through Wednesday, April 17th

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ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, April 10th:The Stuff of Death

"Chronicle of a Death We Can't Accept"

The Undertaking, by Thomas Lynch

Jessica Mitford, "The American Way of Death," in The Grim Reader,pp. 302-11

Philippe Aries, "The Modern Cemetery," in The Grim Reader, pp.296-301

Paul Auster, "Portrait of an Invisible Man," in The Grim Reader, pp.110-14

ASSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY, April 15th:Ways of Dying

GUEST LECTURE AND DISCUSSION: Dying and Hospice Carewith Gwendolyn Alsop and Beth Rosenberg of Hospice andPalliative Care of CharlotteAnne Munley, "The Hospice Alternative," in The Grim Reader, pp.363-69.

Timothy Quill's "The Burdens of Aggressive Medical Treatment" inThe Grim Reader, pp. 378-79Ronald Dworkin's "Life's Dominion" in The Grim Reader, pp. 380-85

ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, April 17thSuicide

"Suicide is Neither Rational nor Irrational"

Online Lecture: Watch sections 1, 2, and 3 (through 28:50)

RESOURCES Highly recommended video: The Undertaking

FUNERAL/DISPOSAL OPTIONS

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TED talk: Jae Rhim Lee, "My Mushroom Burial Suit"

If you have lots of cash ...

Soros Project on Death in America

The End of Life: Exploring Death in America

Donate your body to medical science

Podcast: How Autopsies Work

The Body Farm

Podcast: What is a Body Farm?

Reef Memorials

Cremation Association

Green burials

Death and decomposition

Lifeshare Carolinas

City of the Silent

Solar panels on graves power Spanish town

Specifics about cremation

Video: Crematorium

Pet Cemetery online

Spaceflights

Epitaphs

More on home burial

"Pocket Cemetery" app for your phone

Everlife Memorials

International Cemetery, Cremation, and Funeral Association

National Funeral Directors

Museum of Funeral Customs

National Museum of Funeral History

Avoiding the Funeral Industry

Caskets for the obese

Motorcycle hearse

Ask an Expert

Cremation Solutions

Watch an embalming (somewhat graphic)

National Academy of Mortuary Science

Men of Mortuaries calendar

Gravediggers board game

I can hardly believe this one: girls and caskets on a calendar

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"Morgue museum"

This American Life: "Stories of Loss," Act II

"Midwife to the Dying"

Green burials (NPR)

Podcast: How Cremation Works

Man Prepares Beer-Can Burial

Studs Terkel on death and dying

A description of dying, from Hospice

Mortuary College Admissions

Interactive autopsy

Take a really annoying trip through the funeral museum

Near death studies

Natural Death Center

Music thanatology

Gift shop

Send a "last email" (you can do a similar thing in preparationfor the Rapture)

Need a "Deathswitch"?

Bodyworlds

Lady Gaga uses dead bodies in show

Some options for granny's cremains

Become a pencil!

Art from Ashes

Fingerpaint will surely be next ...

Corpses and interior decoration

Death and decomposition

Redefining the Grieving Process in the Digital Age

Huffington Post article abou home funerals

MEMORIALS

Podcast: Kodak Moments of the Dead

Deaths on social networking sites

North Carolina statutes and codes regarding roadsidememorials

Roadside memorials

One of many calls to revive the celebration of Memorial Day

Memorial to Loyal Dog Hachi

National Memorial Registry

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Online memorials to the war dead (audio)

Online Memorial and Virtual Cemetery

Kill a pedestrian? Have flowers sent to the site!

Mail Order Roadside Memorials

Memorial Gift Store

DISASTERS

Dark tourism forum

Religions and disasters: Where is God?

Dark tourism

The spiritual fallout of 9/11

An earthquake and "disaster tourism"

How the media handles natural disasters

Global International Disaster Deaths

On religion, politics, and natural disasters

Most deadly natural disasters of the 20th century

Iraq body count (from an independent, non-governmentalsource)

How do we know how many have died in a natural disaster?

Deaths Overwhelm Japanese Burial Practices

Quake Takes Its Toll on Haiti's Burial Rites

9 DEATH IN THE ARTSMonday, April 22nd

ASSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY, April 22nd:Death in music, poetry, and art

MOVIE ANALYSIS - due today before class (through assignment linknear top of the Moodle site)

Read a selection of these (your choice): "The Things They Carried," by Tim O'Brien (read pages 1-10)

"The Dead," by Billy Collins

"The Afterlife," by Billy Collins

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Read Calvin and Hobbes, The Dead Raccoon series

"Landscape with Dog," by Paul Mariani

Listen to a few of these . . . Listen to Requiem Eternam (Gregorian Chant)

Listen to Mozart's Requiem

Listen to Verdi's Requiem, Dies Irae

Listen to John Adams' "On the Transmigration of Souls"(memoriam for 9/11 victims)

Listen to "Death Sucks" by Mark Bates

Listen to Kate Campbell's Funeral Food

Listen to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody

Listen to Iris Dement's No Time to Cry

Listen to Johnny Cash's Delia's Gone

Listen to Iris Dement's "Let the Mystery Be"

Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark

Grave Digger (Willie Nelson)

Bone Thugs N Harmony - Crossroads

James Taylor - Fire and Rain (Beacon Theatre)

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles

Tourniquet by Evanescence

Tupac - Pour Out A Little Liquor

Reba McEntire - The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia

Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (BBC Live 1968)

Willie Nelson with Ray Charles - Seven Spanish Angels

Candle in Wind - Elton John (in honor of Marilyn Monroe)

Don't Fear the Reaper- Blue Oyster Cult

GENRE ALERT: Songs about dead teenagers

Listen to Mark Dinning's Teen Angel

Listen to Jan and Dean's Deadman's Curve

Listen to the Shangri-La's Leader of the Pack

Listen to Last Kiss by J.Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers 1964

Optional: Nominate a song to be included here in futuresemesters

RESOURCES This American Life: "Last Words"

Writings about death from NPR

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Death, Dying, Grief, and Mourning in Western Literature

Death images on Pinterest

10 DEATH AND HUMORWednesday, April 24th

ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, April 24th:Death and humor

The Temperature of Hell: A Colloquium

Monty Python, "The Dead Parrot," in The Grim Reader, pp. 409-12

"My First Day in Hell," by Jack Handey

Day of the Dead or Halloween?

Funny recent obituary

RESOURCESWARNING: Some of these sources are graphic in language ortheme. They are not chosen to shock you but to make you thinkabout how we find ways to laugh about death.

Investigators Blame Stupidity In Area Death

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of SkeletonPeople

New Old People Magazine Gives Old People Something ToRead While Waiting To Die

Kobe Bryant Mourns Passing Of Ball

George Carlin on death

Rowan Atkinson welcomes people to hell

Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch

The Darwin Awards

The Many Deaths of Kenny (South Park)

Cartoon on cremation

Monty Python's "Bring Out Your Dead" sketch

South Park - "Spookyfish" (Indian Burial Ground Pet Store)

"Funniest movie death scenes"

Humor after 9/11

"My Near Death Experience"

Cake or Death (Eddie Izzard)

Woody Allen's "Death Knocks"

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Scientists Successfully Teache Gorrilla It Will Die Someday

11THIRD EXAM -- MONDAY, April 29th -- THIRD EXAM

Material covered April 10th-April 24th. Format will be IF-ATtest, with both individual and group portions. This test will be

somewhat cumulative (it will ask you to make generalconnections across the course).

Game day is Monday, May 6th, from 11:00-1:30 in Fretwell 121(see specific times below).

Given the logistics involved, it makes sense to split the class intwo with an overlap during which the TAs debut their game, which

requires audience participation. So this is what we'll do:

11:00-12:05: Groups with Gabby, David, Daja, Alex, and Katiebring and play games in 1/2 hour segments

12:00-12:30: All together for TA's game (clickers will check)

12:30-1:30: Groups with Josh, Anna, Hannah, and Patrick bringand play games in 1/2 hour segments

You will each be responsible for rating the games you play.

12 GENERAL RESOURCES

BASIC INFORMATION Timeline of Early Western Civilization

Resouce: Interactive Timeline of Western Civilization(multi-page)

Chart of Early Religious Traditions

Chart of Ancient Greek Philosophies

Learn something about the Abrahamic faiths, historically andtoday

A 90-second perspective on history of religion

Learning from the Dead (archeology)

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GLOSSARIES Glossary: General

Glossary: Mesopotamia

Glossary: Egypt

Glossary: Zoroastrian and Greek/Etruscan/Roman

Glossary: Biblical

Glossary: Hell

Glossary: Medieval

Glossary: Spiritualism

Glossary: Day of Dead and Halloween

Glossary: Cryonics

CLASS PRESENTATIONS Death Statistics

Survey Results

01/28 Thought Experiments

01/30 Death in the Ancient Near East

02/04 Zoroastrianism

02/06 Greek Death & Afterlife

02/11 Anthropology and Death

02/13 Judaism and Death

02/20 Islam and Death

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