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...inescapable fact of life is death. Yet man usually refuses to face it. What La Rochefoucauld said in 1665 is still generally true: "One cannot look fixedly at either the sun or death." Result: "Concern about death," says the University of Southern California's Psychologist Herman Feifel, "has been relegated to the tabooed territory heretofore occupied by diseases like tuberculosis and cancer, and the topic of sex." To remedy this, 21 experts in religion, arts and sciences have pooled their knowledge in a new book, The Meaning of Death (McGraw-Hill; $6.50), edited by Dr. Feifel...
...process operating within all living things, and marks an irreversible end to bodily life. Adolescents, reports Clark University's Robert Kasten-baum, manage to dissociate themselves from ideas of death as from everything else past or future - they live in an "in tense present." Faith & Fear. Editor Feifel questioned adults on "What does death mean to you?" Answers ranged from stoic accept ance of the inevitable to welcoming the "precondition for the 'true' life of man." Surprisingly, intensity of religious belief is no index to acceptance of death, and the most vociferous exponents of belief...
Concludes Editor Feifel: "Attitudes concerning [death], and its meaning for the individual, can serve as an important organizing principle in determining how he conducts himself in life . . . The concept of death represents a psychological and social fact of substantial importance . . . The dying words attributed to Goe the, 'More light,' are particularly appropriate to the subject of death...