Historian Philippe Ariès (1974) has argued that death in modern society is no longer “tame” because we deny its existence so effectively that we lack the personal and communal resources to give it meaning. Discuss the sequestration of death thesis explored in the course and assess the accuracy of the argument put forward by Ariès. For this topic you are encouraged to do some online research and explore contemporary attitudes to death. You may, for example, wish to consider recent ‘social franchises’ such as www.deathcafe.com and www.deathoverdinner.org, or post-mortem planning sites such as www.mywonderfullife.com and www.dyingmatters.org to assess current responses to death. Alternatively, you could assess media coverage of death and dying or any range of other relevant topics.
Aries, P. (1974). “The reversal of death: changes in attitudes towards death in western society.” American Quarterly 26 (5): 536-560.
Ellens, J. H. (2014). “From death denial to death control: the new baby-boomer approach” in C. Staudt and J. H. Ellens (eds.), Our changing journey to the end: reshaping death, dying, and grief in America. Santa Barbara: Praeger, pp. 29-43.
Lee, R. L. M. (2008). “Modernity, mortality and re-enchantment: the death taboo revisited.”Sociology 42 (4): 745-759.
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