PSYC 3570 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: The Main Point, Gallows, Mass Society
10 May 2014
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General consequences: overcrowding would lead to infringements on privacy, mobility, and other individual liberties, birth control would be enforced. The main point is that our individual and societal patterns of functioning are connected with death in one way or another. Components of the death system: the death system is made up of people, places, times, objects, and symbols. All of us are potential components in the death system. Core participants (cid:0) funeral directors, memorial industry, life insurance agents, florists, lawyers, cemetery association, health professionals, clergy, scientists, etc. Cemeteries, funeral homes, and hospitals and have become identified with death. Once a place has become associated with death, we no longer think and feel the same way about it. Memorial day and the mexican tradition of the day of the dead. Prayers for the dead are offered on regular occasions. The hearse, death certificate, noose, gallows, electric chair, and nuclear devices are objects of death.
