Affiliation:
1. School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract
Western society is in an era of death awareness, its most recent salience: A Positive Death Movement. This article traces the evolution of American death culture by describing key periods of change, starting with the 1700s and going through the 21st century, and overviews contemporary movement scholarship. Experts suggest our current epoch is one in which a diffuse collection of individuals and organizations advocate for approaching death differently. Movement proponents aim to modify society’s “conventional” death framework, which is characterized as medicalized, institutionalized, impersonal, and lacking psychosocial emotional preparation and engagement.
Subject
Life-span and Life-course Studies,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine,Health (social science)
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