The Future of Death Care

This class covers the current issues facing end-of-life care and how technology is changing social norms surrounding death, funerals, and grieving. Topics include the rise of artificial intelligence and its potential effects on death care, how social media is changing the "deathscape" by expanding views on death as well as creating the need for new etiquettes of mourning, ethical issues created by technology including death photography and social media posting, and the use of psychedelics at the end-of-life.