“ Indeed, in the majority of cases the dying person has already lost consciousness. Death had been dissected, cut to bits by a series of little steps, which finally makes it impossible to know which ste… Philippe Ariès
“ An acceptable death is a death which can be accepted or tolerated by the survivors. It has its antithesis: ‘the embarrassingly graceless dying,’ which embarrasses the survivors because it causes too s… Philippe Ariès
“ Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid. Philippe Ariès
“ A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud. Philippe Ariès
