PSY 802 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scottish Clan, Rock Music, Blues
27 Apr 2016
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Thanatology: study of facts or events of death and the social and psychological mechanisms for dealing with them; ethical and moral questions and cultural considerations; concerns a number of disciplines (e. g. philosophy and history) We tend to push the idea of death to the outskirts of our lives. In order to gain new choices about death, we must recognize that avoiding thinking about it estranges us from an integral aspect of human life; steve jobs referred to death as life"s change agent . Mass media categorizes us as survivors in showing us the fatal events taking place around us; when threat is perceived, we turn to media for information, even getting live updates due to internet (on. September 11, two billion people tuned into the news) Spectacular obscures the ordinary: much newsworthiness attributed to deaths of famous people (feature-length obituaries with bold headlines); death of normal individual noted through death notice (brief statement listed alphabetically in page of vital statistics)
