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The Great Questions: "What is a good death?"

02.18.2022 - By CenterForLitPlay

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It had to come up eventually. In this episode, the CenterForLit crew tackles the question, “What is a good death?” But what could easily have become a morose conversation quickly becomes an occasion for joy and laughter with a little help from the Christian tradition.

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Referenced Works:

– Pride and Prejudice (1995), screenplay by Andrew Davies

– The Bishop’s Wife (1947), directed by Henry Koster

– Enchanted April (1991), directed Mike Newell

– Midnight in Paris (2011), directed by Woody Allen

– Harry Potter (2001-2011), Warner Bros. Pictures

– “Prediction-based neural mechanisms for shielding the self from existential threat” by Zidermanm, Lutz, and Goldstein

– “The Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” by Sam Bush

– “An Ode to Middle Age” by James Parker

– The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

– Peace Like a River by Leif Enter

– The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

– The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

– Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

– A Quiet Place (2018), directed by John Krasinski

– Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

– The Resurrection of the Son of God by N.T. Wright

– A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

– Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

– Paradise Lost by John Milton

– “Death be not proud” by John Donne

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