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Episode 69: The Death of Deathropology

That's right- Deathropology is permanently over. In this final episode, Jeffrey and Misha share behind the scenes tidbits and memories of creating the show throughout the past two years.

To keep up with Misha, ⁠click here⁠, & to keep up with Jeffrey, ⁠click here⁠.

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Episode 68: Anticipatory Grief

In this episode, Jeff and Misha discuss what is anticipatory grief, does it exist and who experiences it?

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Sources

Anticipatory Grief Guide: What Is It? – Forbes Health.

Anticipatory grief: A review - ScienceDirect Helen Sweeting & Mary Gilhooly

Anticipatory grief: Its nature, impact, and reasons for contradictory findings Linda Reynolds & Derek Botha, 2006

Anticipatory Grief: A Mere Concept? Paul Moon, 2016

Anticipatory Grief: A Family Systems Approach Brianne Overton & Rocco Cottone, 2016 

Do we need to change our understanding of anticipatory grief in caregivers? A systematic review of caregiver studies during end-of-life caregiving and bereavement. Nielsen et al, 2016

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Episode 67: Reviewing Death Books

In this episode, Misha (as if she was put into a microwave) gives you her thoughts on all of the death-related books she has read so far. Peep the sources to see the books as they were reviewed in order!

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Sources

Caitlin Doughty's books: https://caitlindoughty.com/books/

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach: https://www.maryroach.net/stiff.html

Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder: https://www.tylerfeder.com/books-1

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri: https://sunitapuri.com/that-good-night/

Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life by Jessica Nutik-Zitter: https://www.jessicazitter.com/writer

Sorry For Your Trouble: The Irish Way of Death by Ann-Marie Hourihane: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57684809

I'm Glad by Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy: https://www.jennettemccurdy.com/projects/

All That Remains by Sue Black: https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-dame-sue-black-baroness-black-of-strome/

The Last Doctor by Jean Marmoreo & Johanna Scheller: https://www.dr-jean.com/

No Time to Say Goodbye by Carla Fine: https://www.carlafine.com/no_time_to_say_goodbye__surviving_the_suicide_of_a_loved_one_15329.htm

The Hospital Suite by John Porcellino: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20613690

So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters to my Little Sister by Anna Akana: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538870/so-much-i-want-to-tell-you-by-anna-akana/9780399594939/

Further Reading

Left behind after suicide - Harvard Health

Coping after suicide loss | APA

Help Prevent Suicide | SAMHSA 

Touched by Suicide: Bridging The Perspectives of Survivors and Clinicians by Michael F. Myers and Carla Fine, 2007.Trying to keep alive a non‐traumatizing memory of the deceased: A meta‐synthesis on the interpretation of loss in suicide‐bereaved family members, their coping strategies and the effects on them by Rafailia Zavrou et al, 2023.

Coping with suicide loss: a qualitative study in primary health care by Kadri Suija et al, 2022.

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The Fox and the Crow, May 2021

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Episode 66: dancing at the pity party

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Sources

⁠https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/573483/dancing-at-the-pity-party-by-tyler-feder/9780525553021/⁠ 

⁠https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50010932-dancing-at-the-pity-party⁠

⁠https://www.tylerfeder.com/about-2⁠

⁠https://www.instagram.com/tylerfeder/⁠

⁠http://www.instagram.com/mitzvahbear⁠

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The Order Of the Good Death provides resources that help people accept and engage death. (via Our Story | The Order of the Good Death)

See also A New Life for Dying: Death Doulas and the Death Positive Movement

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“When I look at my hands, I see my father’s very large and capable shovels, not, unfortunately, my mother’s more delicate and feminine version. Probably best described as robust, they would never be chosen for a hand-cream commercial or to grace the front cover of Vogue. But they are mine, and they have done everything I have ever asked of them.”

— Sue Black, Written in Bone

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Forensic anthropologist Sue Black, a portrait by Ken Currie via the National Galley of Scotland.

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Landis Blair, illustration from From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty

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“The silence of death, of the cemetery, was no punishment, but a reward for a life well lived.”

— Caitlin Doughty, from Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory

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“As the great cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker said, ‘The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else.’ The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos at three a.m. Death drives every creative and destructive impulse we have as human beings. The closer we come to understanding it, the closer we come to understanding ourselves.”

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

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the answer is yes

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Anatomists came to occupy the same terrain, in the public's mind, as executioners. Worse, even, as dissection was thought of, literally, as a punishment worse than death. Indeed that - not the support and assistance of anatomists - was the authorities main intent in making criminals' bodies available for dissection. With so many relatively minor offenses punishable by death, the legal bodies felt the need to tack on added horrors as deterrent against weightier crimes. If you stole a pig, you were hanged. If you killed a man, you were hanged and then dissected.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach

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Hooded figure in Toulouse, Landis Blair