BIOL 1500 Chapter Notes -The Main Point, Execution By Firing Squad, Mortality Rate
25 Sep 2014
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Overcrowding would lead to infringements on privacy, mobility, and other individual. This control would be an exercise of power and. Society would become very conservative and slow to change its ways. Economic structure of society would be seriously impacted. Moral beliefs and practices could change in many ways. Death might take on a radically different aspect. We would be free from the fear of death. Our personal relationships would extend indefinitely, creating new opportunities and new challenges. Our ideas about the purpose and meaning of life would change. The main point is that our individual and societal patterns of functioning are connected with death in one way or another. We are linked with each other by language, expectations, customs, and needs. We face death alone but also as part of a society whose expectations, rules, motives, and symbols influence our individual encounters. The death system is made up of people, places, times, objects, and symbols.
