CFD 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Timothy Mcveigh, Terry Nichols, Lee Boyd Malvo
19 Dec 2018
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Death-related practices & the american death system: chapter objectives. To identify death-related practices as a component of death-related experiences. To explain the concept of a death system in every society; including its elements & functions. To describe selected examples of death-related practices in the united states: human-induced death. Accidents; homicide; terrorism; war, genocide, & ethnic cleansing; the. Holocaust; & the nuclear era: death & language. Language about death - versus - death-related language: death in the media. Entertainment (fantasized death & violence: death-related practices: The sociophysical network by which we mediate and express our relationship to mortality : every society establishes a system to cope with the challenges that death brings to human existence. Society interprets death for its citizens: a societal death system, people, funeral directors, lawyers, medical examiners, florists, places, cemeteries, funeral homes, hallowed ground, health care institutions. Times: memorial day, death anniversaries, objects, tombstones, hearses, obituaries, gallows.
