PSY 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nuclear Power
11 Feb 2018
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Formal death education is a new phenomenon. Courses in death and dying have increased. Avoiding death does not remove the person from its power - avoidance only limits choice. To make choices rather than to conform (hospices and pastoral care) Learning about death and dying helps to identify attitudes and behaviours to confront mortality in our own way. No matter the culture, death attitudes represent an effort to rationalize or make sense of death. Afterlife characteristic of a society that believes in myths. Transgression vs the gods; or the world"s fate. Death is welcome due to the weariness of life. Death is outside of the person and hi/her control. Always the sense that somehow things can be fixed or changed. In many of these societies the dead are powerful beings and therefore there is a deep respect for them. Elaborate funerals were constructed to ensure that the dead passed over and were not a danger to the living.
