Re-Feminizing Death: Gender, Spirituality and Death Care in the Anthropocene
By Mariske Westendorp and Hannah Gould
16 pages… in its profit-driven, medicalised, de-ritualized and patriarchal form, modern death care fundamentally distorts humans’ relationship to mortality, and through it, nature. In response, the New Death Movement promotes a (re)new(ed) way of ‘doing death’, one coded as spiritual and feminine, and based on the acceptance of natural cycles of decay and rebirth.