Dying Livingly

Staci Bu Shea

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Sternberg Press
01 October 2024

Theory of art; Family & health

Series: Sternberg Press / Solution Series

A series of propositions and encounters in service to an aesthetic and poetic experience of living life led by death.

Part studious, part visceral, Dying Livingly is a collection of short essays and lyrical prose written in the first few years of the author's holistic death care practice. With a focus on the material cultures and sociality of end-of-life spaces, the writing reaches toward a future of compassionate, community-centered death care.

Death has been outsourced, medicalized, and commodified for over a century. Existing at a threshold of innovation and transformation today, death is not a plight to master or transcend but a reality of insistent change requiring our humble surrender. Working in tandem with the possibilities and limits of medicine, the holistic death care movement aims to support people and their communities in death literacy and phobia. It stewards both ancient and new practices in death care and centers social, political, and ecological imperatives for how we die.

If death is an amplification of living, the attention here is on bearing witness to life in and around the dying. Living a death-oriented life is not simply for those and their loved ones navigating a terminal diagnosis and finite amount of time to live; it is for all of us. Death awareness leads to a valuing of life, which is urgently needed for justice, healing, and our livability.

With fervor and deep reverence, this collection demonstrates that what is needed above all is a presence-simple but challenging-that refuses to look away as life slips from our grip. In this light, the writing details lessons in what it means to be prepared for death but also impossibly ready, an ambivalent leap into the unknown. Death is a horizon that inspires us to live fully, with the vulnerability necessary in giving and receiving care.

By: Staci Bu Shea
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 147g
ISBN: 9781915609403
ISBN 10: 1915609402
Series: Sternberg Press / Solution Series
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents 0. Epigraph 1. Let's hold each other until it's all over 2. Dying Livingly 3. Reports from a sunset 4. A working community of the unalike 5. How to wash a body 6. Compost me 7. Death Realism 8. Eulogy for before and after 9. Florida and North Carolina 10. Grace's hospice 11. Candle triptych 12. As Satomi 13. Deeply forgetful 14. Acknowledgements

Staci Bu Shea (b. Miami, 1988) is a curator, writer, and holistic death care worker based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Broadly, Bu Shea focuses on aesthetic and poetic practices of social reproduction and care work, as well as its manifestations in interpersonal relationships and daily life, community organizing and institutional practice. Bu Shea was curator at Casco Art Institute- Working for the Commons (2017-2022). With Carmel Curtis, they co-curated Barbara Hammer- Evidentiary Bodies at Leslie Lohman Museum of Art (2017). Bu Shea holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2016). Residence- Utrecht, Netherlands Author Site- stacibushea.info

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