Title: Exploring Contemporary Experience of Death and Dying in Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Perspectives from Various Authors

Please write 1 page per question and cite at least 1 of the authors mentioned
1. What was most interesting, absurd, life-affirming, enlightening, frightening, crazy, depressing or comic to you about how Don DeLillo deals with our contemporary experience of death —what he calls “modern death” or “technological death” — in his novel White Noise?
2. How, according to readings we ve covered,
, does the experience of death and dying relate to the
virtues of kindness, compassion, love? (suggested authors: Tolstoy, Dalai Lama, Kubler Ross)
3. What are the biggest emotional, psychological hurdles we face in dealing with death and dying, and how, according to readings we ve covered, can we help each other and ourselves overcome these hurdles? Keep in mind some authors might disagree with each other. (suggested authors:
Plato, Epicurus, Clark, Kubler-Ross, Dalai Lama, Tolstoy. DeLillo)