Let’s face it, at this point in human history we are all terminal,” declared Timothy Leary, that guru of white western counterculture, before his own death at the end of the 20th century. He was not referring to his own end but something larger. We are living in a time when the sense of finality seems acute, with a proliferation of catastrophic end-time scenarios, projections of existential risk, and debates about the end of life, the end of the planet, the end of the species. How does one face the end? How are endings understood, experienced and mediated collectively? What resources and imaginaries are there across cultures for reckoning with individual or collective endings? The pervasiveness of end-time narratives have necessarily provoked a proliferation of afterlives and blueprints for survival, from modern anticipations of digital immortality to doomsday bunkers to ecological imaginations of a “world without us.” Moving between continuity and finality, transcendence and finitude, religion and the secular, whilst exploring literature, film, anthropology and the sciences, the course will explore what being finite feels and looks like in our times as well as contemporary visions of life after death. The course will develop students critical analysis, cross-disciplinary thinking, and ethical reasoning. Additionally, the course will center ethnographic accounts of end-times and after-lives and their place within social life, inviting students to critically examine how endings and continuities are used: who, or what is dying? Why does it matter? What comes after?