Death
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How does society deal with dying and
death?
With
death
one ceases to be a member of society.
A state can threaten death, but, as many totalitarian regimes have learned, no one is stronger - and possibly more dangerous - than those who have overcome the fear of
death.
The threat of
death
is a powerful weapon.
The ritualized culture of
death
and funerals in the old European tradition was an experience in which society was aware of its limits.
By embedding
death
in rituals, society made its self-questioning into a part of itself.
Belief in immortality made the opposition between life and
death
relative.
Mortals see
death
as the gateway to true life, much as a caterpillar might look at a butterfly.
Our atheist modern age understands the contrast between life and
death
as absolute.
Because our societies have no sense of limits, they strive to eliminate
death
from our consciousness.
More and more often,
death
takes place in a hidden hospital room.
Death
is suppressed socially, but the effect is that individuals' fear of
death
grows ever greater.
Most people nowadays face
death
never having witnessed the
death
of someone else!Next comes a desire to eliminate quietly those who can no longer be seen as members of the social world.
Definition of
death
as "brain
death"
allows one to declare breathing beings dead and to eliminate the process of dying, in order to exploit the dying as warehouses of spare parts for the living.
Death
no longer comes at the end of the process of dying, but - by decree of a Harvard commission - at the beginning.
A few weeks ago, several youngsters suffocated to
death
while being deported back to Egypt across the Libyan desert in overloaded trucks.
Syria’s Humanitarian LifelinesNEW YORK – After more than a thousand days of
death
and misery, two important recent public statements show why policy toward Syria must enter a new phase of intensity and focus.
Every time a poor pregnant woman must bribe an orderly to get a hospital bed (to which she is entitled), or else deliver her baby on the floor; every time a widow cannot get the pension that should be hers by right, without bribing a clerk to process the papers; and every time a son cannot obtain his father’s
death
certificate without greasing the palm of a petty municipal official, Indians know that the system has failed them.
On one recent trip, I met Rasmata, a young mother who told me that thanks to the safety net of her savings group, she was managing to support her family despite her husband’s emigration abroad, her father’s recent death, and a lingering drought.
Eventually, as the
death
toll mounted, leaders began to appreciate the scope of the problem and understand the need for collaborative action.
If you are extremely poor, you can’t afford to avoid even the easily curable diseases that cause every sixth human
death.
Any man who would frame the four
death
sentences he had received (one signed by Khrushchev, another by Yuri Andropov, the Soviet ambassador in Budapest in 1956) and hang them in his drawing room has the sort of quirky humor I relish.
In this dispute, Smith comes down firmly on the side of van Delden and Battin, finding that “the empirical evidence gathered in the two jurisdictions does not support the hypothesis that physician-assisted
death
has imposed a particular risk to socially vulnerable populations.”
Instead, she says, “The evidence does support Dr. van Delden’s position that it is possible for a state to design a system that both permits some individuals to access physician-assisted
death
and socially protects vulnerable individuals and groups.”
When criticized by one of his early companions for the
death
of millions during the Chinese revolution, Mao observed that countless Chinese die everyday, so what did it matter?
After he seized power, Che put to
death
five hundred “enemies” of the revolution without trial, or even much discrimination.
Other candidates received
death
threats.
In Tamaulipas, the Golfo and Zetas gangs, former partners, are fighting to the
death.
Saudi Arabia is simply too crucial to US interests to allow the
death
of one man to affect the relationship.
The Turks claim they have audio and video revealing his death, and Senator Lindsey Graham warned, “If it did happen there would be hell to pay,” while Senator Benjamin Cardin has threatened to target sanctions at senior Saudi officials.
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