As no one knows about death, we create an imaginary world of consumption. Material culture provides us a vision of immortality in which we can free ourselves from the mortality of human flesh. It distances us from our true materiality, feelings and even lived interactions.
We love and fear to lose.
Social understanding of death and the ways of dealing with death have changed dramatically and continually, through perhaps most drastically during the last century.
The idea of death often becomes a taboo and repressed, and consequently mourning becomes a private affair.
Bereavement touches all of us sometime during our lifetime. Although intellectually and rationally we acknowledge death as a natural part of life, when it happens on a personal level, it is difficult for us to accept. Why does all pragmatism and prerequisite knowledge fail to influence our emotional response when the death becomes reality?
We love and fear to lose.
Social understanding of death and the ways of dealing with death have changed dramatically and continually, through perhaps most drastically during the last century.
The idea of death often becomes a taboo and repressed, and consequently mourning becomes a private affair.
Bereavement touches all of us sometime during our lifetime. Although intellectually and rationally we acknowledge death as a natural part of life, when it happens on a personal level, it is difficult for us to accept. Why does all pragmatism and prerequisite knowledge fail to influence our emotional response when the death becomes reality?
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