Death: A Series About Life
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Political Death - Death leads to solidarity and unifies society, but it also leads to separation, power struggle and vengeance, both within society and between societies. If death and the numbers of dead have a gathering or separating effect is dependent on personal closeness, the group’s views on life, and whether it conc...May 2017
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Market Of Death - Death is not the end. For many it is the way to make a living. From the entertainment industry, to decorated coffins, to the armament industry, we travel the world in search of the different ways in which death creates a chance for profit. From ensuring a worthy end, to avoiding death by resorting to alte... 52:59 Expired
Creative Power Of Death - Can creativity help to live with death? Tonje D. has lost her mother, and hopes that making a film on the subject of death can help her to deal with this. People and societies have used art and creativity to try to understand and give meaning to death. The relation between fear and fascination for... 52:59 Expired
Life After Death - Faced with death, we search for meaning and hope. Only a few find the biological explanation sufficient, and in all societies dating back to the Neanderthals, there have been notions and stories of what happens to us after death.
In this programme we look into how we ritualise death, and how these ritu... 53:00 Expired
Physical Death - What happens to us when we die? In this episode we will see what happens when we die, and how death fits into nature and the cycle of life. A lot of people go a long way in trying to overcome death. In this episode we will meet several popular, and some more obscure, survival strategies. But in the histor...