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| Get the dead where they need to go, and the living where they need to be |
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| Goffman; association with dead is stigmatized. Seems like a good thing, but we look down upon such people. |
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| Community/family run funeral homes are |
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| super rare now; usually huge corporations |
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| Funerals have Transition into commemorative services |
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| where the dead guy isn’t there. |
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| where dead guy is put. Can be a cardboard box or a $3500 wooden box. |
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| concrete structure to keep worms and water out. |
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| put into a crematorium; should celebrate the placing of the body into the incinerator. |
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| We have not evolved rituals for |
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| large bits of remains that are needing to be ground down into a powder. |
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| placing the body into the ground |
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| Grave digger; had an off demeanor, was a real layperson. Lacks the same closeness with the living. Does his work and leaves. |
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| situational roles. We have different demands and expectations for our roles. |
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| expensive; they’re dead! Economically dumb. Worries about what will happen to body (getting wet). |
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| gives dying person control, a grand farewell, to give dignity. |
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| coloring of skin, caused by pooling of the blood |
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| stiffening of the body, not permanent |
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| death in modern era is secularized, removed from control of religion. |
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| death is handled by professionals and not laypersons |
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| death has moved out of the home and into the hospital/hospice |
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| death is a medical phenomenon, rather than a natural or spiritual one |
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| death’s insight comes from science. Death is based in scientific model. |
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| dying & bereavement have become territory of psychologists who tell us how to handle it. |
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| controlled by laws and rules of the state |
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| death has been turned into a business, something to profit from |
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| death is run by corporations, MOST funeral homes, hospices, etc are run by big businesses. |
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| deaths are focused on the people grieving. Dead guy isn’t invited. |
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| Premodern collectivism era: Religion dominated, faith (absolutism). Priest controls life and death. Soul – center of it all; enabled life after death. Afterlife – achievable with the soul |
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| Howarth result of premodernism |
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| Normalized / Tamed death; led to death being seen as part of life, no biggie. |
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| science dominated sociocultural landscape. Objectivity (empiricism) – threatened religion. Doctor – took control of life and death. Body - center of it all. THIS life – all we have, must preserve life and prevent death. |
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| Howarth's results of science |
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| (pathologized) death is now seen in terms of medicine. |
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| individualized “diversity” era. Psychology – dominated sociocultural landscape. Subjectivity (relativism). Psychologist – took control of those grieving. Grief counselor. The mind/self – that which is most personal to the individual. THIS life – but with focus on celebrating our life. |
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| Howarth's result of post modernism |
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| Psychologized – death is seen in terms of psychology. |
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| Liza wanted to die with her mom |
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| to be with her. Had envisioned her death. |
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| Liza Had a death councilor |
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| said it is good to allow people to accept their death. |
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| Young Mom. Killed two kids. |
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| Had a 2nd child, who was strong and fair. Newborn babies are seen as better, more worthy. Thought that if a baby wants to die, it will die. WRONG to fight death. |
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| Mother love is thought of as something we can count on |
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| left alone for 5 days. Dawn of sixth day they are greeted. Serves to root out the weak, handicapped, etc. |
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| Canada today, Good/bad mother discourse is |
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| still alive and well. Women who don’t meet expectations are punished. |
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| Support for death penalty declined and rose again. Don’t object to executing criminals, they DO object to executing innocent people. Faith in justice system determined support. |
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| Grief that is not socially recognized or supported |
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| Called disenfranchised grie. increasingly common |
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| Welcome people into home for 7 days after death of family member. |
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| ISN’T a normative process |
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| Spanish held practice funerals |
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| plague made this a good idea. Made death less scary. Pursue the good death. |
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| Last respects that strangers can offer |
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| embalmed before burial or cremated |
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| Dealing with the body yields a sense of |
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| operated entirely by women. Caring alternative. |
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| Ashanti don’t have undertakers. |
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| Community deals with deaths. Phases of grief, celebration of life at the end. |
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| prep, sorrow, anger, joy. |
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| knowing what to do and how long to do it. Taking all possessions of deceased and distribute amongst community members. |
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| Athabascan Potlatch banned |
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| by American government because it was not capitalistic. |
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| Chinese belief of a right time and place for events. 90% of Taiwanese are cremated |
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| “complicated grief”, disenfranchised grief. People think he got what he deserved. |
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| People who are grieving/sad. Doesn’t really HELP you re-experience your grief. Constant re-intensifying. |
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| Outlawed practice in India, widowed woman would die with husband in his cremations. Men are more privileged than women; thought that men needed things in the next life, like his wife! |
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| are when bodies are dug up and bones are arranged according to tradition. |
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| consequential, what the medical examiners do. |
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| Medical examiners are called to examine deaths that are |
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| suspicious or unexplained. They determine if a death was an accident, suicide, homicide, natural, or unexplained/undetermined. |
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| Before a body is moved, the hands/face are put in |
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| medical examiner is interested in the body |
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| any signs of a struggle, means that they need to investigate |
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| have a history of epilepsy, abuse, etc. Looking at possible explanations for the storyline of death. |
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| what’s left after cremation |
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| can be placed in lockers at a cemetery. |
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| lockers for urns at a cemetary |
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| Bank of lockers /niches is called a |
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| container for the shrines of relics |
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