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Films On Demand, provided by Films for the Humanities and Sciences, offers a large body of full-length streaming video. Video clips are searchable or browsable by subject areas that include Business and Economics, Careers and Job Search, Family and Consumer Sciences, Health, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, and Technical Education.
Use the online catalog to search for videos (DVDs) in the library's collection.
Some of the videos in the library:
Understanding Death & Dying by
This important training video will educate staff in the psychosocial aspects of end-of-life issues including: Death exercises ; Stages of dying ; Problems associated with a terminal illness ; How we can help the dying ; Advance directives ; Bereavement ; Funerals ; The Good Endings Program ; Music for the dying ; Care for the caregivers.
A Cemetery Special by
"This celebration of cemeteries across America takes an unusual and informative look at graves, monuments, family plots, sculpture, and the way cemeteries interconnect with many aspects of modern American culture. Traveling from Key West to central Alaska, the program features examples of burial grounds as special sites where history and art are preserved, where flowers and trees can be important attractions, where people make pilgrimages to the final resting places of the famous and the familial, and where old and new traditions often combine in fascinating ways."--Publisher.
Facing Death and Dying Well by
H.H. The Dalai Lama teaches about the truth of suffering, the Three Characteristics of Existence, and the dissolution of the body's elements at death. Meditating on impermanence and the momentary changing nature of existence helps viewers appreciate the basic unsatisfactory nature of existence, and strive towards liberation. Causally produced things all depend on causes and conditions which contain within them the seeds of their own disintegration. His Holiness encourages viewers to develop an awareness of death and move from gross understanding to more subtle levels. We need to train our mind in virtuous mental states because our state of mind at the moment of death conditions our next rebirth. Practicing developing positive states of mind is therefore of fundamental importance.--Container
Dearly Departed by
This program profiles two funeral directors - one male, one female - in metropolitan New York. It shows that the work of funeral directors in their interaction with the friends and relatives of the deceased requires reverence, compassion, humor, strength and skill, most of which comes through experience. It follows the two as they go through the mortuary process - corpse pickup, funeral planning, embalming and cosmetizing, viewings and memorial services, burial and cremation, as well as air transport.
