Death

Death has been sterilized, institutionalized and dehumanized in attempt to increase individualism due to our idea that hospitals provide a good death (Somerville). Death has disappeared from community life and relocated as an individual experience occurring within the power of medical experts. Death has also changed from an everyday occurrence to a feared, mysterious and meaningless experience (Clarke & Seymour). This decrease in social death has caused the dying and their loved ones to feel alone and construct own values, a situation which Clarke and Seymour feel is prone to inducing anxieties.
Funerals
Postmodernism celebrates death as the patient doing it their own way (Walter). Death is done however the dying want it to be done as Walter states "my own way." This is done through private and individual death. The concerns are no longer that of the community but of medical professionals (Walter). Now it is almost as if one must keep very close social networks to have......

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Title: Death Andying
Approximate Word Count: 2572
Approximate Pages: 11 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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