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Ecological Death Reform and Death System Change.

Nick MacMurray¹, Robert Futrell¹

¹University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

|August 21, 2019

Summary

Ecological Death Advocates propose environmentally sensitive alternatives to conventional death management. Their efforts aim to create space for humanistic, ecologically-informed end-of-life choices.

Area of Science:

Sociology of death and dying
Environmental studies
Cultural studies

Background:

Robert Kastenbaum's death system analysis provides a framework.
Contemporary death management practices are critiqued for being hyperrationalized and professionalized.
Growing interest in humanistic and environmentally sensitive end-of-life alternatives.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the social change efforts of Ecological Death Advocates (EDAs).
To highlight EDAs' critiques of conventional death management and their proposed solutions.
To theorize EDA reform efforts within the context of "death-system" politics.

Main Methods:

Analysis of online data.
Examination of documentary data.

Keywords:

death death systems dying end-of-life social change

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EDAs advocate for ecologically benign death management alternatives.
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Conclusions:

EDA reform efforts represent a form of "death-system" politics.
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The movement reflects changing attitudes toward death and broader ecological sensibilities.