All tagged Death

Death Keeps You Honest: Decentering The Individual, A Story Of Loss / Rachael Rice

Death Keeps You Honest: Decentering The Individual, A Story Of Loss / Rachael Rice

Patrick Farnsworth
Rachael Rice, 327

Artist, writer, and death worker Rachael Rice joins me to discuss death practice, entitlement, and honesty in our time of collapse and extinction.

This is an honest conversation, between friends. Both Rachael and I have very different lived experiences, but we align in several significant ways, especially when it comes to interpreting and navigating an extraordinarily messy time. The felt sense and scope of loss in the midst of the ongoing pandemic is shared between us. We bear witness to the wide-spread denial and full-faced First World entitlement — the “return to normal” and “I’ve-got-mine-ism” of it all, from top to bottom. It is a lot to bear. And yet, we acknowledge the time we are living through may be remembered as the good ol’ days in the years and decades to come.

Do I Look At You With Love?: Dementia’s Tragic Promise & An Act of Care / Mark Freeman

Do I Look At You With Love?: Dementia’s Tragic Promise & An Act of Care / Mark Freeman

Patrick Farnsworth
Mark Freeman, 307

Mark Freeman, narrative psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society at the College of the Holy Cross, discusses his book Do I Look at You with Love?: Reimagining the Story of Dementia — documenting the final twelve years of his mother’s life of cognitive decline with dementia. This interview explores the complex reality of the narratives of the self, memory, the “tragic promise” of dementia, relationship, and the final acts of care one can provide for a dying loved one.