Corpse Care Ethics for Tending the Dead
“Corpse Care Ethics for Tending the Dead” by Cody J. Sanders, published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers in 2023, offers a thoughtful exploration of death care in the U.S. This 150-page book examines the intersection of ethics, economics, and environmental concerns related to the treatment of the dead. It addresses the significant cultural and theological questions surrounding death and the dead body, emphasizing the need for a more engaged approach from Christian communities.
Readers will find a detailed discussion on the materiality and meaning of the dead body, as well as the living’s relationship to it. The book argues for a renewed reflection within Christianity on the care for the dead, challenging the notion that this responsibility should rest solely with the funeral industry. By connecting the themes of death, grief, and bereavement to broader ethical and theological considerations, “Corpse Care” presents a framework for understanding the importance of embodiment in both practical and spiritual contexts.
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Corpse Care relates the history of death care in the U.S. to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns.
Death and the treatment of the dead body loom large in our collective, cultural consciousness. The authors explore the materiality and meaning of the dead body and the living’s relationship to it. All the biggest questions facing the planetary human community relate in one way or another to the corpse. Surprisingly, Christian communities are largely missing in the discussion of the dead, having abdicated the historic role in care for the dead to the funeral industry. Christianity has stopped its reflection about the body once that body no longer bears life. Corpse Care stakes a claim that the fact of embodiment, this incarnational truth, this process of our bodily becoming, is a practical, ethical, and theological necessity.
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