5 Games That Help Us Confront Death | Screen Therapy
Channel: Screen Therapy
Date: 2020-12-21

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This is a weird video, for sure, but I wanted to share this list of 5 games that could be useful tools for us to get used to thinking about and accepting the nature of our mortality, in a calm and healthy way. This is a list of games about accepting our personal mortality, not about grieving the loss of others (there are so many games that could help us with that, I might make a separate list). This list of games is for anyone feeling resilient enough right now to look for the emotional/psychological challenge of confronting death and dying (and its perfectly normal and valid if you're not feeling that way). This is another video in my growing collection of videos about the Death Positive movement to de-censor our society and encourage compassion discussions around death and dying. 

Timestamp Chapters:
00:00 Why Confront Death?
01:55 Video Games Can Help Us?
03:27 1. What Remains of Edith Finch
07:03 2. Spiritfarer
09:16 3. Far From Noise
15:19 4. The Graveyard
16:55 5. A Mortician's Tale
19:17 Conclusion

Sources:
 Niemeyer, R. A. (Ed.). (1994). Death anxiety handbook: Research, instrumentation, and application. Taylor & Francis.
Video Source: "What is the Death Positive Movement" by Brut.
Video Source: "Death as a Part of Life" by The Dalai Lama
 Bartsch A., & Oliver, M.B. (2016) Appreciation of Meaningful Entertainment Experiences and Eudaimonic Wellbeing." The Routledge Handbook of Media Use and Well-Being. Routledge.
Rieger, D. (2017). Meaning, mortality salience and media use. Handbook of media use and well-being. Routledge.

Music:
Tranquility - Chill Lofi Hip Hop Beat (FREE FOR PROFIT USE) - by Prod. Riddiman
What Remains of Edith Finch OST - Jeff Russo & Joel Corelitz
Spiritfarer OST - Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis
Far from Noise OST - Geoff Lentin
A Mortician's Tale OST - Halina Heron

Outro/Screen Therapy Theme:
Never Really Gone by Stuart Bateman
Stuart Bateman - https://soundcloud.com/stuartbateman 
https://twitter.com/StuartEBateman 

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