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THE BIG DEATH PROJECT
Sunday, June 11, 2017 at 3:14PM HOW AMERICANS DIE
How we die, the narrative into which death is imported, the meaning we the living assign to death, are all negotiable. Philippe Aries captures some of thie when he talks about death as a bondary between Nature and Culture.
Death is the great natural outsider, the event that no amount of human cleverness can finally avert. But, Aries argues, as Death invades the world of Culture it is, if not tamed, rendered less disruptive by being invested with meaning.
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