"Just
in case you thought there was no distinction between representation and
reality there is death. Just in case you thought experience and the representation
of experience melted into one another, death provides a structural principle
separating the two. . . . See the difference."
— Regina Barreca
Writing as Voodoo: Sorcery, Hysteria, and Art
7:41 A.M., 1993, Jim Goldberg
Seeing
the Difference: Conversations on Death and Dying
Artists, humanists, and medical professionals discuss
what it means to die in America in the 21st century
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to the Project
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Edited proceedings of the June 2000 Institute. Read the
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June
2000 Institute
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Program
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Participants
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Excerpts
Seeing the Difference
A Project
on
Viewing Death and Dying
in Interdisciplinary Perspective
a
project of the
Doreen B. Townsend
Center for the Humanities
UC Berkeley
Christina
M. Gillis, Ph.D.
Project Director
Seeing
the Difference
is sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, with the generous
support of the Walter and Elise Haas
Fund,
the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation,
and the Wallace Alexander
Gerbode Foundation.