PSYC 3570 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Execution By Firing Squad, The Main Point, Gallows
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In every society there is a protect from death, with the dead and to inflict death. The fact that you have not seen a corpse is a way how society protect you from it. Overcrowding would lead to infringements on privacy, mobility, and other individual liberties. This control would be an exercise of power and prestige. Society would become very conservative and slow to change its ways. Economic structure of society would be seriously impacted. Moral beliefs and practices could change in many ways. Death might take on a radically different aspect. We would be free from the fear of death. Our personal relationships would extend indefinitely, creating new opportunities and new challenges. Our ideas about the purpose and meaning of life would change. The main point is that our individual and societal patterns of functioning are connected with death in one way or another. We are linked with each other by language, expectations, customs, and needs.