The Death of a Parent

For most of us in the developed world, death is a very remote thing. So much so that we can go for much of our lives simply disbelieving in our own death - or at least putting it off. And then in the 19 century, that began to change. First, death was romanticized. Dickens specialized in beautiful deaths. But he wasn't the only one. In the twentieth century, we decided that death should simply be erbrushed out,. and this was something evelyn war made fun of in his best books The Loved One which makes fun of the american way of death.