Death, Redesigned A legendary design firm, a corporate executive, and a Buddhist-hospice director take on the end of life.
Death, Redesigned
A legendary design firm, a corporate executive, and a Buddhist-hospice director take on the end of life. By Jon Mooallem Artwork by Amy Friend
https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-04-05/death-redesigned
This is the article that Charlie referenced in today's "Here's A Thought with Charles Shaughnessy." It is from the California Sunday magazine. Interesting thoughts here
There’s an ugliness — an inelegance — to death that Paul Bennett gradually came to find unacceptable. It seems to offend him the way a clumsy, counterintuitive kitchen tool might, or a frumpy font. At first, that disgruntlement was just “a whisper in my mind,” Bennett explains. “But it’s gone from being a whisper to a roar.” The solution, when it finally occurred to him, felt obvious. “Oh,” he told himself. “You need to redesign death.”
Bennett is 51 — 30.7 years to go, if the demographic data is reliable — a blindingly energetic British man with unruly brown hair. He works as …
A legendary design firm, a corporate executive, and a Buddhist-hospice director take on the end of life. By Jon Mooallem Artwork by Amy Friend
https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-04-05/death-redesigned
This is the article that Charlie referenced in today's "Here's A Thought with Charles Shaughnessy." It is from the California Sunday magazine. Interesting thoughts here
There’s an ugliness — an inelegance — to death that Paul Bennett gradually came to find unacceptable. It seems to offend him the way a clumsy, counterintuitive kitchen tool might, or a frumpy font. At first, that disgruntlement was just “a whisper in my mind,” Bennett explains. “But it’s gone from being a whisper to a roar.” The solution, when it finally occurred to him, felt obvious. “Oh,” he told himself. “You need to redesign death.”
Bennett is 51 — 30.7 years to go, if the demographic data is reliable — a blindingly energetic British man with unruly brown hair. He works as …