YOUR DEATH IS NOT ONLY YOURS :: presented by CIANNA STEWART for Decayging Exhibit / OCT-15-2025 скачать в хорошем качестве

YOUR DEATH IS NOT ONLY YOURS :: presented by CIANNA STEWART for Decayging Exhibit / OCT-15-2025

We can transform our understanding of our own deaths by considering its impact on others, and breaking down our assumptions about cultural norms and expectations. As a death educator, Cianna leads classes, hosts podcasts and counsels individuals and their given or chosen families on various emotional, legal, institutional and social issues, including decisions, questions and options confronting those embarking on their end-of-life journey. In her presentation, Cianna foregrounds the history in the United States in our changing relationship to death with an overview of how the social mores and cultural, ritual and spiritual practices of end-of-life planning, through hospice through burial have migrated from internal family traditions and responsibilities to professionalized "3rd party" vendors outsourced from the home. In this way our intimate experiences of death have been isolated, depersonalized, & de-familiarized as they have been translated into primarily highly-regulated clinical procedures. “Assuming the people who love you will be grieving your death, that’s the worst time to force them to make decisions. Planning ahead is an act of love, a dying kindness.” – Cianna Stewart , founder of Dying Kindness 💀❤️ --- --- --- This talk was presented in series as part of DEADLY SERIOUS / ARTFUL MORTALITY: A DEATH ACTIVIST SYMPOSIUM :: OCT 15, 2025 / 7-9pm This evening brings together cultural commentators and death activists to examine mortality and share their thoughts on its power and impact in our contemporary moment—as well as propose new ways of engaging the premise and practice of our death from more sustainable and constructive perspectives. There is a lot of “new-thinking” in contemporary death practices and visionaries who are developing models that re-imagine our death to work better for individuals and their supportive communities of friends and family. New examples of “family caretaking,” ritualized embalming, natural corpse composting and land conservation burials, engagement legacy park/memorials and other “green burials” focus on integrating sustainable practices and legacy-honoring between living human beings and the spirits and memories of the departed. See how the presenters grapple with the concept of our “decayging” and present new life—& DEATH!—affirming models of addressing, honoring, architecting our own mortality. Featuring these PRESENTERS: CIANNA STEWART - @dyingkindness / dyingkindness.com AMY & MARK MONTGOMERY - @amymontgomery69 MARK MILLER - @markmiller1201 / markmillerarchitecture.com Presenter’s BIO: Cianna P. Stewart is the founder of Dying Kindness, a project for people who are going to die someday. Her goal as a death educator is to help people make key decisions now in order to be kinder to those they’ll leave behind. Cianna has experience as a caregiver, worked in HIV advocacy & care throughout the 1990s, and has generally had a life with a lot of death in it, both of the expected kind and not. She draws on all this life (& death) experience and much more to support the practical and emotional realities of planning for death and dying.