Art Of Dying Research Articles

The Art of Dying in a Digital World: How Death is Represented in Digital Art

With the rise of computing, human rituals and cultural practices have increasingly interwoven with digital technologies. In this milieu, the cultural facets of death and art are particularly noteworthy. The realm of art has undergone a seismic shift due to computing, developing new artistic forms and enhancing the reach of older forms. Concurrently, aspects of death are now integrated into digital technologies, manifesting in unique ways such as the retention of data from the deceased, digital expressions of grief, online memorials, and the like. In light of this, our fundamental, qualitative, and exploratory study endeavors to map out and discuss digital art pieces that delve into themes of death, mourning, and digital afterlife. In doing so, we probe the intersection of art, death, and technology. Our findings delineate the primary methodologies and technologies employed in digital art centered around death, and the nuanced modalities through which this subject is portrayed in digital media.

Book Review: The Art of Dying: A New Annotated Translation

Book Review: The Art of Dying: A New Annotated Translation

Ars moriendi: Proteases as sculptors of cellular suicide.

The Ars moriendi, which translates to "The Art of Dying," encompasses two Latin texts that gave advice on how to die well and without fear according to the Christian precepts of the late Middle Ages. Given that ten to hundred billion cells die in our bodies every day, it is obvious that the concept of a well and orderly ("regulated") death is also paramount at the cellular level. In apoptosis, as the most well-studied form of regulated cell death, proteases of the caspase family are the central mediators. However, caspases are not the only proteases that act as sculptors of cellular suicide, and therefore, we here provide an overview of the impact of proteases in apoptosis and other forms of regulated cell death.

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Art as Vitalizing Source or Denial of Life: On Inger Edelfeldt’s Künstlerinromane This article examines the role of art in the work of Swedish author Inger Edelfeldt. Based on an analysis of the short story “Skapelsen” (“The Creation,” 1995), the article argues that Edelfeldt’s literary works present two opposing views of art: art as an imitation of life and art as a source of life, which in turn are aligned with Nietzsche’s distinction between the Apollonian and the Dionysian. Furthermore, the article investigates how this distinction relates to Edelfeldt’s stories of the artist as heroine. The article argues that these stories fall into two major categories: the comic and utopian Künsterlinroman – exemplified by Hustru (Wife, 1978) and Det hemliga namnet (The Secret Name, 1999) – and the tragic and critical Künstlerinroman – exemplified by Konsten att dö (The Art of Dying, 2014). The analysis shows that these novels, while antithetical in tendency and structure, are organized by the same dialectic between the Apollonian and Dionysian and between art as an imitation of life and art as a source of life. While one side offers a naïvely utopian and individualistic picture of the woman artist in contemporary society, the other gives a realistic and critical perspective on the same subject. And the interconnection between the two views of art reveals a deeper complexity in the author’s portrayal of the contemporary woman artist than can be achieved through isolated analyses of her individual works.

Overcoming Acceptance of Physician-Assisted Suicide

Acceptance of Physician-Assisted Suicide has been on the rise, especially in recent years. However, it is the position of the Catholic church that this practice denies the inherent dignity of all human beings from the point of conception to natural death. The Art of Dying, a classic Catholic text recently translated into English, provides a more compassionate, faithful, and dignified approach to end-of-life care that recognizes the rights of the dying, as well as their loved ones, while remaining faithful to the teachings of the Church.

The Art of Dying: Making a Will in Old English and Its Sociolinguistic Context

Abstract This paper explores the potential of legal documents for the study of the sociology of Old English. It gives a rationale for the use of legal genres, or charters, and introduces research databases and tools that may elucidate the interconnections between practitioners of legal Old English and their linguistic practices. A series of short case studies on wills illustrates what legal genres tell us about the correlation between linguistic variation, supralocalisation, and change and such variables as archive and gender.

The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom, by L.S. Dugdale

The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom, by L.S. Dugdale

Pasupata Yoga and the Art of Dying

This paper researches the relation between yoga and death in the early Saiva tradition of the Pasupatas, based on three Pasupata sources: the Pasupatasutra, the Ratnatika and the Skandapurana. The paper presents an analysis and interpretation of textual passages that treat the last moment of the life of a Pasupata ascetic in order to find out whether or not his death can be interpreted as a form of ‘self-induced yogic death’. Following the analysis of the primary sources, it will become clear that yoga and death stood in a much closer relation than one might expect.

Departing: Death and the Art of Dying

Journal of Palliative MedicineVol. 24, No. 5 Book and Media ReviewsDeparting: Death and the Art of DyingPhylliss M. ChappellPhylliss M. Chappell—Reviewed by: Phylliss M. Chappell, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston Methodist Academic Institute, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Supportive and Palliative Care, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA E-mail Address: pmchappell@houstonmethodist.orgSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:19 Apr 2021https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2020.0663AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View article"Departing: Death and the Art of Dying." Journal of Palliative Medicine, 24(5), p. 801FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 24Issue 5May 2021 InformationCopyright 2021, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishersTo cite this article:Phylliss M. Chappell.Departing: Death and the Art of Dying.Journal of Palliative Medicine.May 2021.801-801.http://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2020.0663Published in Volume: 24 Issue 5: April 19, 2021PDF download

The Science of Living and the Art of Dying

If sex and death are the two most powerful subjects in our daily lives, sex has been comprehensively exposed in our culture, but death still struggles to get a thoughtful audience and is often ignored or denied. Living mostly requires scientific knowledge but dying is an art in the sense of needing the application of imagination. The author presents her own experience of sudden family deaths from a young age and considers herself a ‘death passionate’. She believes that true awareness of death, including one's own, is life‐enhancing and can inspire great creative acts, while unprocessed grief can result in violence and tragedy. A good death, she argues, requires a life lived fully, without falsities, and our real legacy is the human, and artistic, one reflected in the lives of those we have loved and those we have worked with. The article is accompanied by a photograph that stages the author's own ‘deathbed scene’, taken by the author's son, a professional photographer.

The Art of Dying is the Art of Living: Rationality in Theravada Buddhism

The Art of Dying is the Art of Living: Rationality in Theravada Buddhism

Remembering the Art of Dying: lessons for medical trainees.

In her book The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom (2020), Lydia Dugdale claims that a deep cultural forgetting process underlies contemporary society's impoverished views of, and practices surrounding, death and dying. Her thesis, and the cultural developments that trace this story of widespread forgetting, offer insight into how medical trainees come to participate in such impoverished views and practices, to the detriment of themselves and the patients they serve. Through better understanding the tacit metaphysical and ethical forces that contribute to this process, trainees might better appreciate the insidious power of such forces on their moral development. Moreover, by turning to traditioned communities outside of medicine and to patients themselves, medical trainees may find the moral resources to reimagine their roles both in providing care and attending to their own mortality.

Love's Revival: Film Practice and the Art of Dying

Dying serves so often within the narratives of Western popular culture, as an exercise in self-improvement both to the individual dying and to those looking on. It enlightens, ennobles and renders exceptional all those affected by it. Though mainstream cinema's “grammar of dying” is mired in similar myths, film has the potential to do dying differently: it can, instead, connect us, ethically, to the vulnerability of others. The aim of this article is to pursue this potential of film. Using the mainstream grammar of dying as a starting point, I will consider how the moving image, and this ethical potential, is harnessed within two hybrid-media pieces about a loved-one's decline and death: George Saxon's art installation, “A Record of Undying” (2014) and photographer Briony Campbell's short film The Dad Project (2009). While these works will be located within the traditions and transformations of moving image practice, the primary concern here is with how such emotionally resonant pieces navigate our relation to, and responsibility for, our own and others' harsh realities. In this way, the question of ethics is grounded not in the solipsistic circuits of affective modes – whether as the catharsis or betterment of mainstream myths, or what Jane Stadler privileges as the ethical effects of empathy – but in something more inherently, more inevitably, political.

Improving Spiritual Care at the End of Life by Reclaiming the Ars moriendi

Ars moriendi, or The Art of Dying, was a highly influential fifteenth-century text designed to guide dying persons and their loved ones in Catholic religious practices at a time when access to priests and the sacraments was limited. Given recent challenges related to the coronavirus pandemic, there is a heightened need to offer additional forms of guidance related to death and dying. This essay examines the content of the Ars moriendi and considers how key principles from the work apply to the current context. The Ars moriendi, in its direct approach to the salvation of souls and thoughtful treatment of struggles faced by dying persons, offers a much-needed supplement to typical approaches to death and dying today.

Antony and Cleopatra and the Art of Dying

This article considers a literary-theoretical problem—how a dramatic work manages the relation between its phenomenal finitude and its artifactual durability—through an analysis of William Shakespeare's efforts in Antony and Cleopatra to recover tragic possibilities from the triumphalist political and religious histories with which the suicides of his protagonists had become entangled. A novel mode of allusion, which serves to explode connections rather than to make them, brings these histories into view as limits beyond which members of the audience cannot see. In this way, the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra are reconstituted beyond the interpretive horizons that had originally denied their force as endings.

The Art of Dying

This paper will discuss three gardens and garden metaphors which represent such abstract ideas as temporality, transience, sickness or death. Even though these gardens do exist in reality, more of us are familiar with them from literature. The gardens of Sylvia Plath in Devonshire, Derek Jarman in Dungeness and Péter Nádas at Gombosszeg have acquired a metaphoric existence due to literary texts, they have been filled with meaning in the imagination of the readers, and they point to something beyond themselves. While constant change is part of the natural existence of gardens, these metaphoric gardens or garden metaphors are transferred to a certain timelessness, an everlasting present by the literary texts. This aesthetic existence or metaphoric overdetermination also affects the actual gardens themselves: if we are familiar with the poems or narratives written about them, we are no longer able to regard them as neutral spaces devoid of meaning.

The Art of Dying: A Global Nursing Perspective.

The purpose of this paper is to explore how people from diverse backgrounds and places, who are severely ill, disabled, or facing death, use art to help themselves and others not only make sense of such experiences but live fully with loss and the limited time remaining. The humanbecoming paradigm is used to provide a language to talk about Western and non-Western experiences of life-threatening illness, disability and death, and art. The persons discussed in the paper suggest that age and place, although influences, are not particularly relevant, nor is severe illness, even those associated with significant failing capacities, because they cannot contain the human spirit or relationships.

Leget, C., Art of Living, Art of Dying. Spiritual Care for a Good Death

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Thea Dorn and the Art of Dying

Thea Dorn and the Art of Dying

The Theological Virtue of Hope and the Art of Dying

This article discusses the nature of and challenges to the theological virtue of hope in the Ars moriendi or ‘art of dying’. It proposes a renewed ascesis of hope whose shared eschatological vision and set of practices help sustain from despair and prepare Christians for a hopeful and ‘good death’.