It's Time to Talk Frankly About Death.
Medical ethicist Daniel Callahan. His new book is "The Troubled Dream of Life: Living with Mortality." (Simon & Schuster). In it he looks at how our society views death: If death is a "part of life," why do we have such trouble accepting it? And how do our attitudes about death affect medical and social policy? Callahan calls for a new understanding of death, so that it could be, "tolerable and familiar, affirmative of the bonds of community and social solidarity, expected with certainty and accepted without crippling fear." (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)
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