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Readings:
"DYING WELL, AND THE MYTH OF A GOOD DEATH"
"An Enemy Defeated: Death and Resurrection"
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Death is, perhaps, the most inevitable event that awaits all of us in life. It looks like people in developed countries nowadays have a lot less direct contact with death than in the past, when the mortality rate was so much higher. However, we still have to deal with death on a regular basis, and it appears that every death is as individual and unique as are unique the lives we live. Historically, the humankind has developed a few ways to put up with the phenomenon of death. Authors of both articles refer to them as “sentimental acquiescence,” “reflective acquiescence,” “desperate defiance,” and “heroic defiance,” to name just a few prominent ones....