The Arc of Life (2012)

Directed by

Jon Monday

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gerontologist interviews a religion scholar about how different societies and religions have understood aging, the purpose of life, and what happens after death.

thoughtfulconversationalcontemplativeinterpersonaleducationalcalmphilosophical

What happens

The Arc of Life (2012) is a film of an interview of world religion scholar Professor Huston Smith by Ken Dychtwald, a gerontologist and psychologist. The topics covered range from an overview of how societies from early human history to today deal with the problem of aging, to how the various religions of the world view the purpose of life, and what they teach about what happens after death. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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