New Article: Every Word of the Sepulcher – How the Seventeenth Century Teaches Us to Die
Added 2019-09-27 17:55:06 +0000 UTCHello Deathlings!
We close out the month of September with an article from writer Ed Simon who
looks at the 17th century as a "Golden Age of Death," a time that Simon argues provides us with important guidance in the 21st century in terms of how to grapple with death.
He explains that "figures like Thomas Browne, Robert Burton, John Donne, and of course, Shakespeare, wrote some of the most vital work on mortality ever written, precisely because they wrote in an era where there was skepticism towards immortality. The 17th century was a gloaming period, when the old faith endured just enough that the best of carpe diem and memento mori still had their charged energy, but when old certainties were then crumbling. What the 17th century provides is a manner in which an approach to death can be squared with an uncertainty as to whether we're to live again, or if we're journeying towards that "undiscovered country" of extinction."
Here's another article from Simon on trans humanism and death entitled Debts Owed to Death.
And as some of you may know, our next video, originally due to be released on September 28th, has to wait until October 5th because of the GOVERNMENT (don't fret, all will soon be explained). But in its place we'll be releasing an exclusive, Patreons-only video of ME this Saturday, answering questions you all submitted in the Deathling Den on Facebook.
I know, I know, not a brand spanking new artisanal video, but instead you get "Candid Caitlin", uncut and au naturel. So come hang out with me? Please?
Thanks for sticking with me through GOVERNMENT red tape and none...
Caitlin
