ABSTRACT

Using fiction, the story introduces the essential role of leisure to bridge the realities of life and death. Facing death of a friend or your own engenders questions about the purpose of one’s life, addressing unresolved relationships, and how to live well while dying. Josef Pieper’s conceptualization of leisure as contemplating one’s place in the universe and celebrating or affirming one’s place in the cosmos is relevant to understanding this intersection. The story revolves around a wake, a practice of sitting with the dead and mourning/celebrating that dates to ancient times to highlight leisure as a companion for dying, death, and life. The emergence of death doulas and community-based deathcare suggests an interest in creating new or alternative rituals and leisure practices that sustain people during these transitional spaces-times. The short story interlaces experience, research, and historical scholarship to highlight leisure as already present and essential for living and dying.

摘要

故事使用虚构的形式介绍了休闲在连接生死现实方面的重要作用。面对朋友或你自己的死亡会引发关于一个人生命的目的、处理未解决的关系以及如何在临终时好好生活的问题。Josef Pieper 将休闲概念化为思考自己在宇宙中的位置并庆祝或者肯定自己在宇宙中的位置与理解这个交叉点有关。故事围绕着一种唤醒，一种与死者坐在一起并哀悼/庆祝的做法，其历史可以追溯到古代，以突出休闲作为死亡、死亡和生命的伴侣。死亡导乐和基于社区的临终关怀的出现表明人们有兴趣创造新的或替代的仪式和休闲实践，以在这些过渡时空期间维持人们的生活。短篇小说将经验、研究和历史学识交织在一起，以突出休闲已经存在并且对生死至关重要。