On Befriending Death With Joanna Ebenstein and Saraliza Anzaldúa

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Thank you for joining us for our conversation with Joanna and Saraliza, explore key timings in the recording and more below: • 💡 Key Timings: • Introductions: 6:17 • Conversation: 7:35 • Audience Q A: 1:07:46 • • IMPORTANT INFORMATION • 📣 This event will have computer generated automated captions during the live event. Fully edited captions (with AI and human editors) will appear within 24 hours of the live event. • 🌿 Learn about the Indigenous communities, languages, and treatise of your area with https://native-land.ca/ • DESCRIPTION: Talking about death is often deemed morbid or taboo, but to fully embrace life, scientists, psychologists, and spiritual leaders all agree—contemplating death is the key to living a life with meaning. • • Join Joanna Ebenstein, author and founder of Morbid Anatomy—an organization exploring the interstices of art and medicine, death and culture—for a conversation with CIIS faculty and Chicane philosopher Saraliza Anzaldúa exploring how to befriend death. • Sharing insights from her latest book, Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life, Joanna discusses what it means to be mortal and shares how to both come to terms with what death means and live alongside it without fear. In doing so, you can see your own life in a new light and discover what makes life worth living. • • Whether you're struggling with anxiety, grieving a loved one, or seeking a greater sense of purpose, Joanna invites you to embrace your own mortality, create a personal relationship with death, and live a life of greater meaning and joy. • • ✨ Love our events? Show your support by donating here: https://www.ciis.edu/donation-form. Your contribution helps us continue offering informative, unique events like this. • • WAYS TO JOIN OUR CIIS COMMUNITY • ➤BECOME A MEMBER SAVE: https://bit.ly/BecomeaP2Member • ➤FACEBOOK @ciispubprograms • ➤INSTAGRAM @ciispubprograms • ➤LINKEDIN www.linkedin.com/in/ciis-public-programs • 🎟️ REGISTER FOR UPCOMING EVENTS: https://bit.ly/AllEventCalender • ✉️ JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER: https://bit.ly/CIISPubProgramsNewsletter • • 🌿MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES🌿 • • We hope that our events provide opportunities for growth, and that our audiences will use them as a starting point for further introspection. Many of the topics discussed in our events have the potential to bring up feelings and emotional responses. If you or someone you know needs mental health care and support, here are some resources to find immediate help and future healing: • • 🌿 Visit 988lifeline.org or text, call, or chat with The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by dialing 988 from anywhere in the U.S. to be connected immediately with a trained counselor. Please note that 988 staff are required to take all action necessary to secure the safety of a caller and initiate emergency response with or without the caller’s consent if they are unwilling or unable to take action on their own behalf. • • 🌿 Visit thrivelifeline.org or text “THRIVE” to begin a conversation with a THRIVE Lifeline crisis responder 24/7/365, from anywhere: +1.313.662.8209. This confidential text line is available for individuals 18+ and is staffed by people in STEMM with marginalized identities. • • 🌿 Visit translifeline.org or call (877) 565-8860 in the U.S. or (877) 330-6366 in Canada to learn more and contact Trans Lifeline, who provides trans peer support divested from police. • • 🌿 Visit https://www.ciis.edu/ciis-in-the-worl... to learn more and schedule counseling sessions at one of our centers. • #death #booktalk #dayofthedead #ciis

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