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Death-positive movement
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The '''death-positive movement''' is a [[Social movement|social]] and [[Philosophical movement|philosophical]] movement that encourages people to speak openly about death, dying, and corpses. The movement seeks to eliminate the silence around death-related topics, decrease anxiety surrounding death, and encourages more diversity in [[End-of-life care|end of life care]] options available to the public.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Overview ==
The term death positivity was first used by [[Caitlin Doughty]] as a play on the term [[Sex-positive movement|sex positivity]]. Doughty claims that her understanding of the term sex positive meant being "fascinated by human sexuality and my own relationship to sex" and a refusal to be ashamed of this interest, she then invented the term death positive because she felt that this meaning could also be applicable to many people's feelings about death.<ref></ref> [[The Order of the Good Death]] website lists the beliefs of the death-positive movement as being that cultural censorship of death and dying does more harm than good, that open discussions about death should be accepted as a natural human curiosity, that families should have full rights to care for the bodies of their loved ones without intervention from funeral businesses, and that end of life care should be diversified and performed in ways that cause less damage to the environment than our current practices.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> The movement also strongly encourages participants to speak to their families about their own end of life wishes, even if they are young and healthy and is critical of the commercialized funeral industry.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> It also encourages people to express their feelings about death through art.<ref></ref>
Interestingly, a large number of people have noticed that the death-positive movement is very female-dominated, leading some to discuss if the movement may have unexpected [[Feminism|feminist]] aspects to it.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref></ref> Sarah Troop, the creator of the website [https://deadmaidens.com Death & the Maidens] claims that women's interest in death positivity stems from a desire to achieve [[Bodily integrity|bodily autonomy]]. Dazed quotes her as saying:<blockquote>''"We've had our bodies subject to rules and laws created by men for centuries, it is a feminist act to have the final say over what happens to your corpse when you die"''<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref></blockquote>Comparatively, it is also possible that the movement has attracted a large number of women simply because it is female-driven and was invented by women.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== See also ==
* [[The Order of the Good Death]]
* [[Death education]]
* [[Death midwife]]
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Death]]
== Overview ==
The term death positivity was first used by [[Caitlin Doughty]] as a play on the term [[Sex-positive movement|sex positivity]]. Doughty claims that her understanding of the term sex positive meant being "fascinated by human sexuality and my own relationship to sex" and a refusal to be ashamed of this interest, she then invented the term death positive because she felt that this meaning could also be applicable to many people's feelings about death.<ref></ref> [[The Order of the Good Death]] website lists the beliefs of the death-positive movement as being that cultural censorship of death and dying does more harm than good, that open discussions about death should be accepted as a natural human curiosity, that families should have full rights to care for the bodies of their loved ones without intervention from funeral businesses, and that end of life care should be diversified and performed in ways that cause less damage to the environment than our current practices.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> The movement also strongly encourages participants to speak to their families about their own end of life wishes, even if they are young and healthy and is critical of the commercialized funeral industry.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> It also encourages people to express their feelings about death through art.<ref></ref>
Interestingly, a large number of people have noticed that the death-positive movement is very female-dominated, leading some to discuss if the movement may have unexpected [[Feminism|feminist]] aspects to it.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref></ref> Sarah Troop, the creator of the website [https://deadmaidens.com Death & the Maidens] claims that women's interest in death positivity stems from a desire to achieve [[Bodily integrity|bodily autonomy]]. Dazed quotes her as saying:<blockquote>''"We've had our bodies subject to rules and laws created by men for centuries, it is a feminist act to have the final say over what happens to your corpse when you die"''<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref></blockquote>Comparatively, it is also possible that the movement has attracted a large number of women simply because it is female-driven and was invented by women.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== See also ==
* [[The Order of the Good Death]]
* [[Death education]]
* [[Death midwife]]
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Death]]
March 24, 2018 at 12:14PM
