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Death, Dying, Grief and Mourning
a Collection & Chronology of Death
in Western Literature
"During the five
thousand years of known literary expression, save for several
hundred years of silence, authors have achieved all manner of
technique in the connecting of death and death’s sphere of
significance...."
"We all desire to find
meaning, the sense of dying and death. Fighting, fearing death
is of no value in the scheme of living. Literary consideration
of death is a challenging concept that each writer approaches
according to his own set of cultural beliefs, experiences,
observations, and imagination..."
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