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Erik Hoffner lives and takes photographs in Ashfield, Massachusetts. He is outreach coordinator for Orion magazine and previously worked in the field of environmental education, where he held many low-paying jobs in beautiful places.
At every deathbed and hospital room, I didn’t see sane dying. I saw sedated dying, depressed dying, isolated dying, utterly disembodied dying. Sane dying would require a childhood steeped in death’s presence, an adulthood employed in its service, and an elderhood testifying to its necessity. Sane dying is a village-making event: lots of people with plenty to do, the whole production endorsing life.
August 2015Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
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