Great courses (Compact disc)

Compact discs

Title from containers

"Course number 6822."

Accompanying course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 201-226)

12 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture

Unabridged

Lecturer: Professor Mark Berkson, Hamline University

Disc 1.

Death's place in our lives -- Defining death --

Disc 2.

Death, illusion, and meaning -- Is it rational to fear death? --

Disc 3.

Understanding and coping with grief -- Death rituals and the corpse --

Disc 4.

American death rituals -- Approaches to dying well --

Disc 5.

Judaism on death and the afterlife -- Death and hope in Christianity --

Disc 6.

Islam on returning to God -- Death, rebirth, and liberation in Hinduism --

Disc 7.

Buddhism on impermanence and mindfulness -- Process of dying in Tibetan Buddhism --

Disc 8.

Confucian remembrance, Daoist forgetting -- Death and syncretism in China --

Disc 9.

Suicide examined -- Choice of euthanasia --

Disc 10.

Killing in war and the pacifist challenge -- Considering capital punishment --

Disc 11.

Killing non-human animals -- Near-death experiences --

Disc 12.

Pursuit of immortality -- Value of death