SOC246H1 Lecture : SOC246.docx
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Aging is a sexually transmitted disease from which there is no cure. Whenever disaster strikes people often claim that lives were saved by quick thinking. But this is not so, lives are never saved, only extended . Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should buran and rage at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light . These two quotes show different perspectives - shows that we can express death as blunt biological reality or we can try to find a deeper meaning of what death actually means. Death has changed from our pre-modern times to modern times. Religions such as ancient judaism; hebrew idea of eternity of darkness shio (sp?) Below earth there was this dark place called shio. Poetry or scriptures just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes, those that go down in shio do not come back .
