Ecological Death Reform and Death System Change

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13629918
AutoresNick MacMurray (0000-0002-4602-6201, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA, autor correspondente), Robert Futrell (0000-0002-2885-9103, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA)
Ano2019
Volume83
Fascículo4
Páginas859-883
Data de publicação2019-08-19
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0030222819869485
PMID31426698
OpenAlexW2969773202
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas18

This article elaborates on Robert Kastenbaum's death system analysis by explaining social change efforts among Ecological Death Advocates (EDAs), a diverse group of designers, scientists, spiritualists, and entrepreneurs who seek to develop more environmentally sensitive and humanistic alternatives to contemporary death management practices. Drawing from online and documentary data, we highlight EDAs claims about problems with conventional death management and the solutions they propose. Specifically, EDAs challenge hyperrationalized and professionalized death management practices by advocating for more ecologically benign approaches that link past traditions with new technological innovations to better align death practices with personal and community needs. We theorize EDA reform efforts as an aspect of "death-system" politics to carve out cultural, economic, and political space for alternative end-of-life decisions that better reflect broad ecological sensibilities and changing attitudes toward death

EDAS · Environmental ethics · Humanism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs