Dr Jeremy Cohen
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Jeremy Cohen is an Assistant Professor at McMaster, in the Department of Religious Studies. His research is focused on communities and new religious movements seeking radical-longevity and immortality, as well as the historical and cultural framework of changing North American relationships to technology and death. Jeremy is also the co-founder and co-editor of TalkDeath.com. You can listen to Jeremy’s music, discussed in the podcast, here: https://futurebodies.bandcamp.com/ We talk about his paper Frozen Bodies and Future Imaginaries: Assisted Dying, Cryonics, and a Good Death. We discuss his chapter Immortality and Existential Terror: learning the language of living forever, which is published in the edited collection Beyond the Veil. In this chapter Jeremy talks about the complexity of subjectivity in Death Studies research. We talk about his blog, written on TalkDeath entitled History of the Salem Withch Trials: Was it Mass Hysteria? and the links between the Salem Witch trails and the Satanic Panics in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. The Op-Ed 'Online Learning is Worsening the already uneven educational experience' written by Jeremy and discussed in the episode can be read here. Please cite as: Cohen, J. (2023) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 April 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.22445221 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedeathstudiespodcast/message
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