Death, Dying, and Immortality This Winter

By Eric Steinschneider, December 23, 2024

What Is Death?

What is death? What, if anything, lies beyond it? This winter course investigates how religious traditions from around the world come to terms with death and imagine various possibilities for transcending it. Topics include the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Epic of Gilgamesh, green burials, and digital afterlives. Students are invited to explore their relationship with mortality in view of other traditions’ perspectives.

Death Flyer

For further information, contact Eric Steinschneider (Philosophy and Religion) at esteinschneider@ithaca.edu.