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  2. Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the ...

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    [17] Death, being sorrowful and ugly, was therefore denied. Expressing sadness or emotional turmoil, Ariès argues, is likely to be equated with bad manners, mental instability, and unnecessary morbidity. Referencing anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, Ariès states that death has replaced sex as western society's greatest taboo. Children are less ...

  3. List of last words (20th century) - Wikipedia

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    — Charles I of Austria, the last Emperor of Austria (1 April 1922), while dying of pneumonia "I am coming, Katie!" [3] — Herbert Rowse Armstrong, English solicitor (31 May 1922), prior to execution by hanging for the murder of his wife, Katharine Mary Friend Armstrong "No." [3] [120] [121] [122] [note 13] (signing 'no' in sign language)

  4. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Associated with dying cowboys, along with "Going to that big ranch in the sky." Go to one's reward [2] To die Euphemistic: Final reckoning, just deserts after death Go to one's watery grave [1] To die of drowning: Literary: Go to a Texas cakewalk [11] To be hanged Unknown Go the way of all flesh [2] To die Neutral Go west [2] To be killed or ...

  5. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep - Wikipedia

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    Kansas native Clare Harner (1909–1977) first published "Immortality" in the December 1934 issue of poetry magazine The Gypsy [1] and was reprinted in their February 1935 issue. It was written shortly after the sudden death of her brother. Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri.

  6. The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

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    [1]: 24 Stories of the end also allow individuals to reflect on their own death, and to make sense of their lives, their place in time, and their relationship to the beginning and the end. Thus, having laid down this theoretical position, Kermode tracks the creation of new attempts to 'make sense of life' through literature.

  7. Fact check: Clarence Darrow, not Mark Twain, said quote ... - AOL

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    Darrow later refined the quote to a shorter version that Quote Investigator found he used during congressional testimony and in his 1932 memoir, in which he wrote “I have never killed any one ...

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  9. List of last words (19th century) - Wikipedia

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    "I have my death wound, General. I am shot and dying... Yes, Good night... My poor mother." [4] — Fredrick Henry Beecher, United States Army lieutenant (September 1868), mortally wounded at the Battle of Beecher Island "One thousand greetings to Balakirev." [10]: 36 [20] [note 81] — Hector Berlioz, French composer (8 March 1869) "It is a ...