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The English social anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, in his 1965 Death, Grief, and Mourning, had described this rejection of public mourning as a result of the increasing pressure of a new ethical duty to enjoy oneself, a novel imperative to do nothing which might diminish the enjoyment of others.

Joan Didion

The English social anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, in his 1965 Death, Grief, and Mourning, had described this rejection of public mourning as a result of the increasing pressure of a new ethical duty to enjoy oneself, a novel imperative to do nothing which might diminish the enjoyment of others.

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