As death has been shoved out of the house and moved to the hospital, emotions have been kept to the minimum, and those who might mourn in public are avoided and viewed negatively. In contemporary America such processes in the denial of death have taken a somewhat unique form. In sharp contrast to the medieval attitude towards death and its representation in daily life, the deathbed scene has all but been removed. Death is usually a moment that occurs at hospitals; it has left the home where it once identified the close relationship between individuals in the household from the time of their birth to their demise in the natural process of life.
almost a side-note in a stunningly brilliant piece by Babak Rahimi, at Bad Subjects. link path from the steady and comforting randomwalks
