Death Positive Movement

The Death Awareness Movement began in 1959 with Herman Feifel’s edited volume, The Meaning of Death, but didn’t become a real movement with an educational and moral agenda until the publication of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's On Death and Dying in the late 1960’s. Today, The Death Positive Movement seeks to eliminate the stigma and silence around death-related topics, decrease anxiety surrounding death, and encourage diversity in end-of-life care options available to the public.

Stanford University, SearchWorks

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5460867 

“The death awareness movement provides a new language for speaking about death and dying by stressing death, dying and bereavement as meaningful human experiences beyond their medical context Our workshops provide training and support to individuals and organizations working to create positive change. Join us and learn how you can make a difference in your community."

National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35466807 

“Western society is in an era of death awareness, its most recent salience: A Positive Death Movement. This article traces the evolution of American death culture by describing key periods of change, starting with the 1700sand going through the 21st  century, and overviews contemporary movement scholarship.” 

The Order of the Good Death https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/history-of-death-positive-movement/“Movements rarely exist in a vacuum. They build on work of previous activists, movements, as well as historical, political and social events. The Death Positive Movement is no exception. The 1970s and 1980s created the foundation for the Movement as 

we know it today.”