5/10/2008

The death in the society

In the start the man didn't fear to the death. The person was guided and you knew when and how you will die; the death was accepted without fear, as yes you were part of a natural progression. The death was not neither accelerated neither delayed; certain rituals were made, liturgies were created and some customs were established.
The moribund one participated active in the ceremonial of the death and until you presided over the protocol. And this way per millennia the death was a public act, with the presence of the family, neighboring friends and children.

In the Middle Ages the attitude began to change. Of something that were common, ordinary, prospective and accepted it became something reserved and until forbidden.
The lie began to surround to the process of the death, seemingly with the purpose of protecting the moribund sick person. Hardly to the turn of this century people's that died third two parts were smaller than 50 years, and most of people died in your house, in your bed and flanked of the family and friends. And the children learned how to see the death like part of the life, no, like a threat or something unusual, but simply like part of the reality.

Currently most of the deaths happen in bigger than 65 years of age, and a high proportion of the decesos takes place in medical institutions or hospices and in the most absolute solitude. Because you are no longer acceptable to die in presence of the family; the place to die is the room of a hospital or infirmary.
And as a characteristic feeling of the up-to-date times, the topic of the death should be avoided, not because you worried the moribund one, but for the society and the relatives of the moribund one. The strong emotion caused by that that were the ugliness of the death should be avoided, and the topic of the death replaced to the sex like taboo topic.

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