Making Dying Illegal

by Madeline Gins

Literary Nonfiction. Madeline Gins and Arakawa's book opens with this "Reversible Destiny Statute": "Not making an all-out effort to go on living and the act of dying are from this date on classed first-order felonies. Citizens will need to strive to define the heartiness of their existences and be responsible for astute and timely assessment of negative patterns of events and failed or failing conditions. Choosing to live within a tactically posed surround/tutelary abode will be counted as an all-out effort to go on living." "Equal parts poetry, philosophy, legislation, blueprint, remedy, and demand, this book throws down the gauntlet and calls Dying what it really is--treason against the body"--Joshua Edwards. "Arakawa and Gins' latest book is not just a utopian statement but a ground-breaking quest for new radical thinking which revives the optimistic stance of modernism"--Francoise Kral.

Genres: Architecture

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Claudio Galparoli · Rating 1 out of 5]

i cant find this book anywhere

[Stephanie McGarrah · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you want to make dying illegal, maybe you shouldn't go the classical Marxist route because you will literally bore me to death! This is a very strange book, essentially a manifesto for what Gins and Arakawa call "Reversible Destiny," a program for making death illegal, but despite the novelty of it I just couldn't make it past the introduction. It could be well done satire, but for all I know this is a serious polemic against the insult to humanity that is death.