Death and Dying - Call for Papers

Special Issue on:

“Death and Dying”

Guest Editor: Dr. Cyn Johnson

For Tamara Journal of Critical Organization Inquiry 

Call Close Date: Spring 2012

Thoughts… Death need not be a terrifying experience. Especially if you accept the theory that death is a transition instead of a finalization. Many things can kill us whether it is natural or unnatural. We can get hit be a car or blown away by a tornado. We can die of lung cancer or a nuclear attack. When many people die at once it takes many people to deal with the tragedy. Law enforcement and emergency medical workers make their living with clean up efforts and keeping us safe. They save our lives on the street and health care workers save our lives in the hospital. The gift of life is extraordinary. In theory, if you donate an organ you can live on through others. 
     This special issue is an invitation to explore the compassion, sensitivity, devastation, and celebration of death and dying. Are death rituals and funerals more for the living than the dead? Is it closure for the living or an open spectacle? What are the ethical issues of death and dying? Should one be able to plan his or her own death? Death is a controversial subject. There are many questions and theories to be analyzed. Above all, there are more stories to be told!

Topics could include…
The theatrics of death
Choosing to die
Ancient and modern management of death
Culture and death
Rituals and spectacles of the macabre
Ethics of death
Social upheaval of a mass catastrophe
Epidemiology management
Personal stories of passing

Articles, poetry, drawings, prose, and so on will be considered. This special issue will be flexible and open to many avenues sharing the realm of the artistic with the academic.
►Be creative!

Contact for submissions:
Guest Editor: Dr. Cyn Johnson
 cynjohnson(at)live.com