Passionate Suffusion

Abstract

This chapter provides the second example of an enabling frame that focuses on a different and more intimate embrace with my-death as it manifests itself in everyday markers of finitude. Finitude has emerged as a catch-all concept referring to the many ways in which individual existence is bounded and constrained by its position in time and place, by its embodiment, and by being constrained by character and perspective. This frame shares the view of the previous frame, which approaches death as intrinsic to life, but it shifts this to a far more emotional and intuitive form of connection. It explores the different ways in everyday life that we encounter the many aspects of our finitude and how this provides the basis for staying connected with my-death.