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“In the first half of the nineteenth century, most Americans were intimately familiar with the process of dying. During that time, most Americans died at home, attended to by their relatives. For Christians, a good death meant passing peacefully into the presence of God with family and spiritual counsel close at hand. Singing hymns, reading Scriptures, dispensing wisdom, and praying while a loved one expired punctuated a good Christian life.” This reflects a stark reality that for the majority of us is alien and unfamilar. As the author recounts in that piece, we have been distanced from death. Our culture finds death, the dying, offensive and thus we hide them away in hospices and hospitals, anywhere but in front of us, reminding us of our finitude, yet as much as we shun death we are obssessed with it.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 13:06:31 +0000

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