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Interview on Death Row Myuran Sukamaran http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/grief-and-regret-unpublished-interview-with-myuran-sukumaran/news-story/310de1886f1732460c22a6c7bbacefdd On the night of January 17, hours before the first “batch’’ of six drug convicts was executed by firing squad on Indonesia’s prison island of Nusakambangan, I interviewed Myuran Sukumaran by phone. He was terrified he and Andrew Chan would be next. It was one of Sukumaran’s last interviews after the rejection of his clemency bid on December 30. With Chan’s denial of clemency confirmed on January 22, their fate was sealed as they were to be executed together. An interview published at that time would have jeopardised their legal cases and fragile bids for mercy, so the words could not then be told. Through the earpiece that night, as we discussed his likely fate, Sukumaran’s soft voice revealed a gamut of emotions: shock, terror, desperation, grief, regret and incomprehension. Sukuma...

Notes on Mortality: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/13/every-third-thought-robert-mccrum-extract-death 13 August 2017, Robert McCrum A man recounts his brush with death and how he came to terms with his mortality. Important article to consider

Notes on Mortality: http://www.artofdyingwell.org/talking-about-death/coming-terms-death/accepting-your-mortality/ , 2017 , Author not provided . Pope Francis on death and dying Pope Francis has spoken about this very instinct. He said: “If it is understood as the end of everything, death frightens us, it terrifies us, it becomes a threat that shatters every dream, every promise, it severs every relationship and interrupts every journey.” Yet he added: “If we look at the most painful moments of our lives, when we have lost a loved one — our parents, a brother, a sister, a spouse, a child, a friend. We realize that even amid the tragedy of loss, even when torn by separation, the conviction arises in the heart that everything cannot be over, that the good given and received has not been pointless. There is a powerful instinct within us which tells us that our lives do not end with death.” . The 18th century saint, Alphonsus Liguori, wrote a whole book about preparing for death. ...

Notes on Mortality: https://www.ft.com/content/a57c054e-1f66-11e5-ab0f-6bb9974f25d0 , Financial Times , July 3 2015, Antonia Macaro .Philosophers have tried to cure us of our fear of death for thousands of years. Wittgenstein famously said that “death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death”. According to Epicurus, we shouldn’t fear death; it is a state just like the time before we were born.   .Our fear of death is too fundamental to be displaced by rational thought. In a way that’s how it should be, as it seems beneficial from an evolutionary point of view to fear our own destruction; without it, we probably wouldn’t still be around as a species. .Thoughts of transcendence can provide comfort. If you believe in the existence of a soul that lasts, you may be less troubled by death anxiety, as the end is then not annihilation but only an end in this particular form. If we don’t have such beliefs, however, this comfort is not available to us. ...

 

Jonathan Levine's 2011 film 50/50, tells the true story of a young man called Adam, and his progress through the life shattering news that he has a 50/50 chance of living out the rest of his life, due to cancer that has developed on his spine.  Levine is able to show the transformation of Adam's journey, through a comedy film, yet still representing the harsh and realistic concept that mortality is an experience everyone will eventually face, and how each person handles it differently.   We plan to take some of these concepts of realism and how a person may react to the daunting news that they are not long for this world.