DYING AND DEATH 17 / Interdisciplinary Conference on Dying and Death in Art, Philosophy, Law and Politics 2017

The DYING AND DEATH 17 / Interdisciplinary Conference on Dying and Death in Art, Philosophy, Law and Politics 2017 covers topics such as:

• Politics of death
• Culture and death
• Suicide, murder and euthanasia
• Philosophy of death and dying
• Reactions to death and dying: Grief and bereavement
• Causes of dying
• Wars, genocide, mass murder
• Funerals and rituals
• Film studies and death
• Description and expression of death and afterlife
• Performance arts, music and death
• Literature, poetry and death
• Death-related technologies
• Grave, mausoleum and architecture
• Dying and religion
• The metaphysics of death
• Death and the question of life’s meaning
• The possibility and/or desirability of immortality
• Clinical and biomedical issues related to death and dying
• Ethical controversies related to death
• Conflict management and communication during grief
• Mental health and spirituality of the dying and grieving
• Social justice and grief