Embracing Life and Death

Kenneth Tobin, Presidential Professor Emeritus at CUNY Graduate Center, taught high school science for a decade before holding university positions in Australia and the U.S. His research focuses on contemplative practices, wellness, and energy-related treatments for human pathology.Konstantinos Alexakos, Professor at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, coordinates Adolescence Science Education. His research addresses teaching, learning, emotions, wellness, and critical social issues like race, gender, and sexuality to enhance well-being and education.

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Perspectives on Mortality and EducationKenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos2 Understanding Life’s End: A Journey of Awareness and ResearchKenneth Tobin and Konstantinos Alexakos3 A Sociology of My DeathPeter Kaufman4 Rediscovering the DeathbedEleanor Miele5 Reimagining the Boundaries of Life and DeathDimitris Antoine Alexakos6 Put That Knife Down: A Journey on How Buddhist Practices Saved My Life from DepressionTaya Wanasen7 Living Life after Depression: Through a Lens of a Mindfulness PractitionerPiyanate Chuychai8 Living and Dying a Good LifeRanjit Gopi9 Right Action Is Its Own RewardGene Fellner10 Conceiving the Inconceivable… and Then What? A Response to Ranjit GopiMitch Bleier11 Honoring ImpermanenceVickie Karkazis12 Buddhist Perspectives of Animal Hospice and Transition to the Spiritual HomeJo-I Wu13 When Eudemonia Meets Impermanence: A Zen Perspective on LiberationChia-ju Chang14 A Source of Peace: Death and Joy in Sanskrit TextsXicoténcatl Martínez Ruiz15 Insights from Death Park: Dialogues on Life and DeathKashi Raj Pandey, Badri K. C. and Kenneth Tobin16 In Preparation of Emotional Well-being through Narrative Reflection: Reflecting Death and Dying from a Compassionate ProximityKashi Raj Pandey17 Ruminations on Life, Aging, and DeathLeonard Herczeg18 Running Marathons: A Letter to my MotherAnna Malyukova19 Changing Views on the Process of DyingWladina Antoine Alexakos20 Navigating Life’s Final Passage: The Practice of P’howaOrest Pelechaty21 Reflections on the End of Life: A Multicultural Examination through Death EducationKenneth Tobin 22 Faith & Farewell: A Family Navigates Life’s Final DecisionsKenneth Tobin 23 Utilizing LLM s in Research on Dying, Mortality, and the AfterlifeKenneth TobinIndex 301