Summary

Chapter 11: Love makes us feel alive and lovelessness makes up feel as though we might as well be dead. Cultures of domination court death with creates an obsession with violence and a lack of love. This is also a component of patriarchal thinking. The worship of death may be a strategy for dealing without fear of it, but it is unsuccessful. We are fearful of strangers and cannot embrace them with love. Furthermore, we are no better prepared to face death and dying. Loving makes it possible to change the worship of death into a celebration of life. hooks then references the work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross to discuss how we can find the courage to face death through loving. hooks encourages us to talk about death and our fear of it openly, one benefit of this would be the ability to better...