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Schillace, Brandy.
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Death -- Social aspects.
Death in popular culture.
Mortality.
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Schillace, Brandy.
Death -- Social aspects.
Death in popular culture.
Mortality.
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Death
's summer coat :
what
the
history
of
death
and
dying
can
tell
us
about
life
and
living
/ Brandy Schillace.
by
Schillace, Brandy.
Pegasus Books, 2016.
Call #:
306.9 S334d
Subjects
Death
-- Social aspects.
Death
in popular culture.
Mortality.
ISBN:
9781605989389 (hc.)
160598938X (hc.)
Alternate title:
What
the
history
of
death
and
dying
can
tell
us
about
life
and
living
Edition:
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Description:
266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (page 239-258) and index.
Contents:
Dead and knowing it -- Eat your dead (and other advice) -- Through a glass, darkly --
Dying
Victorian: memento mori, hair jewellery and crape --
Death
at the anatomy theatre --
Death
and the doctor --
Death
comes to dinner.
Summary:
"
What
we
can
learn from the incredibly diverse ways in which humans have dealt with mortality in different times and places.
Death
is something we all confront -- it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances. People are
living
longer than ever, yet the longer we live, the more taboo and alien our mortality becomes. We, and our loved ones, still remain mortal. People today still struggle with this fact, as we have done throughout our entire
history
.
What
drove
us
to sanitize
death
and make it foreign and unfamiliar? Schillace shows how talking
about
death
, and the rituals associated with it,
can
help provide answers. It also brings
us
closer together -- conversation and community are just as important for
living
as for
dying
. Brandy Schillace works as a Research Associate for the Dittrick Museum of Medical
History
at Case Western Reserve University."--Provided by publisher.
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