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Death: we can’t get there from here.

Death’s bad reputation (see 5 June blog) as an obscene, scandalous social disease is one form of denial. Death is made into such a dreadful specter it is unacceptable, not as manner of speaking, but actually: as in “I won’t accept it.” (This works better when you are at an age where one’s own death […]

July 18, 2015 – 12:45 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Death’s bad reputation.

Death has a very bad reputation in our culture. That sounds like a black humor joke since its badness seems not a matter of reputation at all but inherent in the phenomenon. But to a significant extent, death, or our experience of it, is indeed a social disease: how it is characterized is a large […]

June 5, 2015 – 1:35 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , | Comments (0)