A Strange Post About Death in Emergency Management

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Introduction

The following post was written during a period of struggle. This experience, combined with the reading of philosophical works, resulted in the piece below. It features a somewhat morbid casting of what it means for things such as careers, projects, and initiatives, to end in emergency management.

Owing to my disposition at the time, when I encountered the quote from Morin (1992; below) the ideas of birth and death immediately resonated. To be clear, death is not portrayed here in the sense of loss of life, but as the ultimate ending of things: finitude. While birth is approached normatively as a beginning, the idea of death is used to locate ultimate ends in emergency management and reveal how death haunts the present.

The goal of this post is to highlight that death is always out there waiting to usher in the end of projects, initiatives, careers, organizations, and beyond. Th…