PSYCH218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Family Therapy, Blood Transfusion, Necrophilia
7 Dec 2016
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The covert function prevention of internal chaos: we like the world to make sense and we protect out symbols. If something doesn"t make sense, it"s probably symbolic. It is discouraged to make decisions involving ending your own life or someone else"s life. Suicide (religion and the ethic of divinity may think this is destroying god"s creations, take power of life and death in own hands, not illegal in canada) If this was illegal it will violate charter of freedom and provision of liberty (carter v. Taxes and estates are a reliable source of government income. Funerary constraints (decorations serve as strong identity markers, zoning laws pushing funeral homes to industrial areas) Funeral business regulations (attempt to prevent the exploitation of survivors who are vulnerable such as if they were sold things they do not actually need) Autopsy/exhumation (there is a clash of ethical frameworks here, ethic of divinity versus ethic of community)
