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Modern Way of Death
- June 2, 2023Are new approaches changing attitudes on mortality?
Modern ways of dealing with death in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom attempt to make it a more accepted and autonomous experience. The death positivity movement seeks to spark a more comprehensive discussion of death as a part of life, while death doulas, nonmedical professionals who look after people as they die, offer compassionate end-of-life care. Individuals also use advance directives to share their wishes for dying and after death.
How did COVID-19 affect the modern death movement?
How have mass death events such as pandemics and wars shifted society's relationship to death and dying?
| 1700s–1800s | Funeral homes begin to emerge in the West. |
| 1900–1990s | Professional medical care becomes the norm as people separate themselves from death. |
| 2000s–2010s | Countries begin to legalize euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide; people find renewed intimacy with death. |
| 2020–Present | COVID-19 pandemic spreads worldwide, impacting funeral practices and perceptions of dying and death. |
Should medical assistance in dying include people with severe and persistent mental illnesses?
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Professor of Philosophy and Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics at Queens University. |
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Clinical Psychologist, Find Health Tips and Slosar Consulting, https://www.findhealthtips.com . |
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