Open call for blogs on death and dying for agnostics and atheists

by Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, on June 29th, 2009

Today I have started my day reading [Air-L] blogs on death and dying for agnostics and atheists and I can’t stop thinking about it.

Hi AoIRers!

My father was diagnosed 6 months ago with Stage III esophageal cancer. After one round of radiation and chemotherapy, he recently decided to enter hospice. He’s a retired psychology professor and as a social scientist he’s trying to gather as much information as possible about the process of dying from the personal perspective of an agnostic or atheist. He’s most interested in finding agnostics and atheists facing death who are blogging (or have blogged) about their experiences. I haven’t had much luck identifying blogs that fit this somewhat narrow parameter. He has set up a blog
http://agnosticsfacingdeath.blogspot.com/
in the hopes he can start a conversation with others in similar circumstances.

If you have any suggestions for specific websites, blogs, search terms, etc., please email me off list at sjcoopman@yahoo.com

-Stephanie

Stephanie J. Coopman, Ph.D.
Professor
Communication Studies
Advising Liaison, College of Social Sciences
http://www.sjsu.edu/advising/
Faculty in Residence, Accessible Technology Initiative
http://www.sjsu.edu/cfd/resources/instructional/accessibility.shtml
San Jose State U
San Jose, CA 95192-0112
http://www.sjsu.edu/people/stephanie.coopman/

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Reading this message and the second post entitled Good Day I have realised again the complexity around health and its relationship with moral and beliefs issues and also to what extend the Internet is embedded in everyday life and furthermore death.

I hope the spread of this message could help Stephanie and Bob.

Categories: Blogs, Death, Health, Internet, eHealth


Michael Morrison said

Well I haven’t done any investigating myself but two places spring to mind:

1) Dignitas and other assisted suicide/ right to die organisations which are non-religiously orientated

2) They could try a web of science search for articles on sociology of death and dying. Some might discuss organisations, web resources etc

Incidentally, yes I am so lazy that I posted this even though we work in the same building.

michael


Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva said

Thanks Michael for you comment. I hope It could help them.
See you
Paco


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