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In the Valley of the Shadow of Death
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Dealing With Death
How death is perceived says a lot about the society in which we live. Today's funeral rituals testify to both voyeuristic tendencies and anxiety about decay and oblivion.
The New Death
In recent decades, a new view of death has made an impact, not least within the field of healthcare. The change reflects a societal shift towards technocracy and economism.
First, With the Last
When Claude Monet painted his first wife, Camille, on her deathbed, he broke with the convention of how death should be represented, as an object of contemplation and belief in the hereafter. Instead, he relied on his painting as a way to deal with his grief from a non-denominational standpoint.