For this, and a hundred other reasons, I write about end of life care. A new documentary, Gen Silent, looks at the plight of LGBT elders, often divorced from family, childless, pushed into care facilities and back into the closet out of fear for their care and treatment, told that they can still be "cured" of their "lifestyle." From Hospice Foundation of America's blog, hfahospice.blogspot.com.
The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America will be published by Beacon Press in February 2016.
I'm a writer (and hospice volunteer) living in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and writing primarily about the nexus of death and religion for publications like Guernica magazine (where I'm a contributing nonfiction editor), Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Bookforum, The Baffler, The Guardian, and The New York Times.
I am a Visiting Scholar at The Center for Religion and Media, NYU, and a contributing editor at The Revealer, the Center's publication (where I was editor until June 2013). I write the monthly column, "The Patient Body."
You can find my articles at annneumann.com.
I can be reached at otherspoon@yahoo.com, @otherspoon
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