How Ought We To Live?

This is specifically referencing the Conclusions to your Stevenson and Barry texts, but you aren't limited to that text in building your answer.

Does Death Give Life Meaning?

*new* one week after the Boston Marathon Bombing
A Salon.com retrospective
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/20/across_america_a_week_of_chaos_horror___and_hope/

What do you think after our course? Use the last chapters of both books as well as other course materials and discussions.

Your Obituary

Review the Preface and pp. 6-13 of Barry and The Death of Ivan Illyich.  What is the meaning of life?  What are you not realizing about life?  How might an examination of life inform your living?  Answer this question, in part, by thinking about your own obituary.  What do you need to do now in order to have that obituary?  Feel free to reference Barry, Stevenson & Tolstoy in your response.

Philosophy in the World

What experiences in your life are hard to reconcile with our course material?  (Be specific in identifying the material).  Why is it hard?  What else could you do to square your thinking/philosophizing and your lived experience?

More Philosophy?  Would you take an additional philosophy course if money/time weren’t factors?  Explain.

Death Cafes

If we were to (at least theoretically) organize a death cafe, what would we do?

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/08/173808940/death-cafes-breathe-life-into-conversations-about-dying

Grief

Any ideas about how to support someone who is in grief?  Here are some stories to consider.

Audio stories about grief:
http://www.npr.or
g/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=162232867&m=162232862

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=162304927&m=162304922

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

What was your initial reaction to the film?  What was it at the end?

How does the film relate to the course?  Does it change your opinion on anything?  Individual choice, end-of-life decisions?