The Great Questions: "What is a good death?"

It had to come up eventually. In this episode, the CenterForLit crew tackles the question, “What is a good death?” But what could easily have become a morose conversation quickly becomes an occasion for joy and laughter with a little help from the Christian tradition.

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Referenced Works:

Pride and Prejudice (1995), screenplay by Andrew Davies

The Bishop’s Wife (1947), directed by Henry Koster

Enchanted April (1991), directed Mike Newell

– Midnight in Paris (2011), directed by Woody Allen

Harry Potter (2001-2011), Warner Bros. Pictures

– “Prediction-based neural mechanisms for shielding the self from existential threat” by Zidermanm, Lutz, and Goldstein

“The Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” by Sam Bush

“An Ode to Middle Age” by James Parker

– The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

Peace Like a River by Leif Enter

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

A Quiet Place (2018), directed by John Krasinski

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

The Resurrection of the Son of God by N.T. Wright

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Paradise Lost by John Milton

– “Death be not proud” by John Donne

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