Death at Sunset

One of the reasons that Americans today feel abused and maltreated is the rise of imperative vogues and trends which bid them turn their spontaneous reactions upside down—in the name of science, research, or modernity.

The latest trend bids us define and understand life and afterlife in terms of physical death and the process of dying. An army of psychologists, cultural anthropologists, ethicists, lawyers, theologians, social engineers, novelists, sociologists, and unspecialized commentators, who are to trends what camp-followers are to troops on the march, has rushed on to the scene. The Journal of Death and Dying, the Center for Death Education and Research, the Ars Moriendi Society, D&D (Death and Dying) study courses for nurses, nuns, priests, and ordinary folk—all these have sprung up within the last few years. Thanatology, the “science” of D&D, is here full-blown.

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Malachi B. Martin

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One of the reasons that Americans today feel abused and maltreated is the rise of imperative vogues and trends which bid them turn their spontaneous reactions upside down—in the name of science, research, or modernity.

The latest trend bids us define and understand life and afterlife in terms of physical death and the process of dying. An army of psychologists, cultural anthropologists, ethicists, lawyers, theologians, social engineers, novelists, sociologists, and unspecialized commentators, who are to trends what camp-followers are to troops on the march, has rushed on to the scene. The Journal of Death and Dying, the Center for Death Education and Research, the Ars Moriendi Society, D&D (Death and Dying) study courses for nurses, nuns, priests, and ordinary folk—all these have sprung up within the last few years. Thanatology, the “science” of D&D, is here full-blown.