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Title of Journal: Arch Intern Med

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Abbravation: Archives of Internal Medicine

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American Medical Association

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10.1016/0022-1694(93)90147-2

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0003-9926

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The Meaning of Death

Authors: William B Bean
Publish Date: 1961/06/01
Volume: 107, Issue: 6, Pages: 959-960
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On a number of occasions I have commented upon the extraordinary reluctance of modern American Society to deal with the theme of death This is notably in fact notoriously true among physicians They have invented an elaborate series of elliptical expressions to avoid mentioning the word death outright as though by pretending it did not exist they might be able to vanquish it No group has a more important reason for learning what it can about the phenomenology the interpretation and the effect of various attitudes about the significance of death as they influence persons with serious dangerous or fatal disease and their families and friends The physicians efforts to escape death have been to run away and seek refuge in group norms and actuarial statistics The phenomenon of death and its various aspects are hidden or blurred by an embarrassed reluctance or pained look of curiosity in its presence


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