Sentences with phrase «conversations about death»

In Western culture (and in my white, Protestant, middle - class background), most of us do not have explicit conversations about death and dying1.

In India, conversations about death are unspoken of.

There is comic violence and peril, but no one gets hurt, and there are conversations about death and divorce of parents and about poor parenting.

In August, Josh and Nancy had one of those abstract conversations about death, the kind you have when you feel as if you can run forever.

We shall conc1ude with a couple of conversations about death and resurrection held in Jewish cemeteries.

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She shared a recent conversation she had with Sheryl Sandberg about her new book Option B, in which the Facebook COO writes about resilience in the face of her husband's sudden death.

And though the dates I've seen have ranged more like 50 - 100 years after Jesus» death, even if we grant only 30 years... Well, try thinking about any conversation you had or event you witnessed 30 years ago, however important or profound that event was in your life.

In making the case that the death of God was permanent, the book initiated a wide - ranging and innovative — some would say undisciplined — conversation about the nature of post-Christian existence.

Conversations with many cancer patients and their families through the years have indicated that their experiences have been similar: both they and their clergy were uncomfortable in talking about life, death and concomitant feelings.

You strike up a conversation with them about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but they look puzzled and ask curiously «Who's that?»

Believe it or not, this week marks one month since the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, an event which sparked protests across the country and ignited some important conversations about race in America.

During that time, Me, Myself, and I also read scores of books on the death of Jesus and engaged in numerous hours of conversation with other people about this subject.

That was the Kaepernick movement's greatest strength, Cullars - Doty says: The ability to provoke a dialogue about police brutality that isn't centered on the death of yet another young person color, even if, as she says, «the conversation has been tainted with lies.»

When the conversation turned to Stabler's death in July, Bird said: «I sit here and think he's not with us anymore and I just about can't make it real.»

Still, anyone who is thinking of having kids might want to have some conversations with his or her partner about death — what his / her experience of it has been, how did he / she grieve, what emotions are still unresolved — as well as conversations about fertility — what if we can't have a baby the «old - fashioned» way?

In an inconsequential conversation with one of my daughter's young carers (about Mary Wolstencroft, and her death in childbirth, and its effects on her daughter Mary Shelley) she tossed into the conversation that a schoolfriend had died in childbirth, aged 18.

I don't know about others but I do bring up her death frequently in conversations like that to combat the idea that birth is safe.

At age 5, she and I had many difficult and tearful conversations about our dog's death two years earlier.

Opening up honest conversations about how people want to be cared for at the end of their lives is something we have to do, and that's why I support legislation that would allow people the freedom to make their own decisions about death and dying, guided by their own faith.»

Elisa's death on Thanksgiving weekend in 1995 attracted broad attention — prompting a national conversation about child abuse, a wave of reforms to the city's child welfare system, and a child welfare law named in her honor.

After his recent death, we present an encore interview with WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Joseph Persico about his book - Roosevelt's Centurions.

It reminds me of the conversation in the film Clerks about independent contractors on the Death Star.

The deaths of unarmed black victims at the hands of police sparked a national conversation about racism and policing, from the Black Lives Matter movement to kneeling NFL players.

Amid this fervor, researchers in Sweden found last year that conversations about imminent death are associated with improved care and less pain and suffering.

In a study of relationships between socioeconomic variables and opioid - related drug overdoses, researchers found several correlations that are often not discussed in the current conversation about the nation's deaths of despair, which includes opioid overdoses, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

While rotating through the wards, he discovered that he liked working with the elderly the most, because his conversations with them about illness and death were refreshingly candid.

The similarities between these reports are hard to ignore, but the conversation about near - death experiences often bleeds into metaphysics: Are these visions produced solely by the brain, or are they a glimpse at an afterlife outside the body?

is a socially - engaged artist and astrologer in Portland, Oregon who facilitates conversations about sex, death, and money in communities around North America.

Renee Sills is a socially - engaged artist and astrologer in Portland, Oregon who facilitates conversations about sex, death, and money in communities around North America.

They've been so incredible throughout all of this but, at the same time, it's awkward to talk about death and those conversations tend to only last so long.

But one could easily build on the questions raised in the film and have some very encouraging conversations about faith and the answers that God has provided to us through Jesus» life, death, and resurrection.

An exclamation point sprouts from the heads of alerted enemies; lengthy codec conversations and cinematic sequences punctuate the action; bosses yammer on and on about political ideologies before dueling you to the death; and you can even hide in boxes to stay hidden from foes.

When the little girl's paternal grandmother seeks custody, a bitter legal battle ensues that forces the uneasy family members to have an honest conversation about life, death, anger and America's racial divide.

The movie is a series of conversations about free will, dreams, existentialism and the nature of reality, as its hero wanders through Austin, Texas, in a state between life and death.

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«Savannah Bay» tells the story of a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's death through a long conversation with an elderly woman, during which memory mingles with fiction.

Showing up announced, Isaac's smiling Bud Cooper corners Margaret (Julianne Moore) about the fishy details surrounding her twin sister's death — a conversation that gradually ramps up from phony politeness to outright accusation, as Cooper bats around his guilty target like a cat playing with a mouse.

Whether the Schlondorff film is good or bad, Private Conversations: On the Set of Death of a Salesman, the 82 - minute documentary that Christian Blackwood made about the making of it, is endlessly fascinating, for reasons largely irrelevant to the worth of the Miller play or this particular production of it.

The goal of this case study is not to critique whether or not the response to the death of Michael Brown was appropriate, but rather to catalyze conversations about how system - level leaders can organize to combat structural racism in schools and communities in pro-active ways to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.

However, as the coalition points out, saying nothing communicates a great deal to children — that you may be insensitive to their needs (not realizing that they are confused and struggling), uncaring about this important event in their lives, disapproving of conversations around death, and other negative messages.

I also include an outline of a conversation we had with him when I took our A'level students to ask him about Death and the Afterlife in Christianity.

Writing Tip — Watch Where You Get Advice From http://www.WriteCome.com — Why a conversation about Mr T's death, is something you should keep in mind with your writing business.

Conversations With Tom: An Adventure In After Death Communication, an adventure in after - death communication featuring dictated dialogue from the author's husband, Tom, it was written to help heal those in grief and to educate mankind about death, dying and the afterDeath Communication, an adventure in after - death communication featuring dictated dialogue from the author's husband, Tom, it was written to help heal those in grief and to educate mankind about death, dying and the afterdeath communication featuring dictated dialogue from the author's husband, Tom, it was written to help heal those in grief and to educate mankind about death, dying and the afterdeath, dying and the afterlife.

Sure enough, Death, a slightly cartoonish cloaked skeleton, is right behind her, and before it's time for her to go, they engage in cryptic conversations about the afterlife and what gets left behind.

The ambiguity about whether or not he's really dead, the sort of effeminate quality of the cover as a whole, the implications of the girl kissing him, as though sealing his death... it's a whole new conversation point in its own right.

In a conversation with Sugoi Kojima spoke briefly about the use of photogrammetry in Death Stranding.

This is a long conversation and as we got deeper into it Bo talked about his experience of life and death and the underlying philosophy of his work and life.

Jake Chapman not only be taking part in a debate discussing morality as a form of convention that threatens creativity, but also in conversation with Paradise Row founder Nick Hackworth, speaking about the inspirations behind such seminal works as Insult to Injury and Death, and articulating the rationale for his darkly comic, pessimistic philosophy.

Come together to view Rodney McMillian's timely exhibition Against a Civic Death, then take part in a conversation about art, politics, and race with Chas Moore, founder of the Austin Justice Coalition.

This is what life is like now — waiting in line is no longer about making awkward eye contact with your neighbour and possibly striking up a conversation about the weather or the untimely death of a rock icon.