Joan Didion Quote
Philippe Ariès, in a series of lectures he delivered at Johns Hopkins in 1973 and later published as Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present, noted that beginning about 1930 there had been in most Western countries and particularly in the United States a revolution in accepted attitudes toward death. Death, he wrote, so omnipresent in the past that it was familiar, would be effaced, would disappear. It would become shameful and forbidden.
Joan Didion
Philippe Ariès, in a series of lectures he delivered at Johns Hopkins in 1973 and later published as Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present, noted that beginning about 1930 there had been in most Western countries and particularly in the United States a revolution in accepted attitudes toward death. Death, he wrote, so omnipresent in the past that it was familiar, would be effaced, would disappear. It would become shameful and forbidden.