PSYC 3570 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Execution By Firing Squad, The Main Point, The Hearse
10 Dec 2016
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The concept of the death system invites our attention to interconnections, to the subtle network of. We face death alone in one sense, but in another and equally valid sense, we face death as part of a society. The main point is that our individual and societal patterns of functioning are connected with death in one. Textbook notes (chapter 3) the death system. Basic characteristic of the death system relationships and meanings through which one sphere of action influences another whose expectations, rules, motives, and symbols influence our individual encounters. People: most of us phase in and out of the death system as circumstances dictate, people working in a variety of occupations earn their livelihoods from death-related services. Funeral home director, agents who sell life insurance, florists etc. This can be a private spiritual reflection but also take the form of what psychiatrists call an anniversary reaction, in which the survivor falls ill or behaves erratically.
