Death, Dying, and Seneca with James Romm
Practical Stoicism
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Is Death a Social Faux Pas?
"The more we avoid it, the harder it gets to broach the subject or deal with the realities of death," he says. "I actually missed the opportunity to see or touch my father's corpse." In ancient cultures you attended the dying person and washed their body before they were buried. It was a much more intimate relationship than in today's hospice-run institutions.
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