Humanity is on the threshold of recognizing the fundamental error in its view on life and death. Both death as well as active life is necessary to the vital formation of a larger, more essential whole. Now, with clear, pragmatic ideas, applying an analysis of the sociology of knowledge and change as it pertains to matters of life and death, Carol Simpson focuses on ways in which we can step outside death’s traditional frameworks and limitations. She discusses death as well as topics related to death, such as birth, aging, the elderly and war, examining cultural differences and attitudes. She offers varying perspectives including the Buddhist view, drawing sophisticated and compelling implications and conclusions. Applying the lenses of eight key contemporary social scientists: Edgar Morin, Kenneth Gergen, Edward Stewart and Milton Bennett, Mary Catherine Bateson, Edith Doyle McCarthy, Philip Slater, and Piotr Sztompka, she adds the perspective of Buddhism’s Lotus Sutra as posited by Shakyamuni, Nichiren, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, Josei Toda, and especially contemporary Buddhist philosopher, peacebuilder, educator and poet, Daisaku Ikeda. Simpson, like Ikeda, concludes that to construct a more humanistic and sustainable view of life, it is first of all crucial to establish a culture which correctly positions death in its larger living context and which assigns as its essential component an awareness of the all encompassing eternity of life. 

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NONE OF US ARE

GETTING OUT OFHERE ALIVE


BY CAROL SIMPSON