In Thailand, a series of global and local political events has destabilized the concept of
dying and begun to replace it with a competing concept known as “the end of life.” As a …

The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where
families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical …

In few areas have the advances in scientific knowledge and the new medical technologies
raised more basic questions about the very nature, meaning and value of human life than in …

This paper explores how conceptions of death and the ways in which such conceptions
shape responses to death determine ways of living as well as valued approaches to dying …

This chapter provides some basic information on Buddhist teaching and the mortuary
practices of the various schools of Buddhism, to enable caregivers to be sensitive to the …

Death is an inevitable fact of life. For the religious as well as for some others, its occurrence
does not necessarily imply life's termination or the final end of conscious being. In most …

In this article, I describe a new form of clinical subjectivity in Thailand, emerging out of public
debate over medical care at the end of life. Following the controversial high-tech death of the …

The Tibetan cultural conceptualization of death and care for the dying are informed and
shaped by the intersection of Tibetan medical and Buddhist practice. In Tibetan culture …

© Cambridge University Press 2012. Death at the centre of buddhist culture the statement
that “death is the origin and the center of culture'(Assmann 2005: 1) might at first sight seem …

When I moved to Cambodia in 2003 to study contemporary Buddhist funeral rituals, my wife,
Leah, moved with me. She was then in the second trimester of her rst pregnancy, so perhaps …