Life in the USA
Death in the USA
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American Attitudes
---Hush Hush
---Keep it At a Distance
---Now We Can Talk About It
How Americans Die
---Heart Disease
---Cancer, and Cigarettes
---Behind the Wheel
---Suicide
---Homicide
---War
Funerals
Hospice Care
Condolences and Sympathy
Death Notices and Obituaries
Controversies
---Abortion
---The Right to Die
---Hastening the Process
---The Death Penalty
---Cryonics
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Introduction
Death has a very special place in American culture. America grew as a frontier nation in the
constant shadow of death. Americans love dead heroes, from George Washington to Elvis
Presley. Music and movie stars like Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison, Hank Williams
and Patsy Cline have made much more money since their deaths than during their lives. Even
to make it onto an American postage stamp you have to be dead for at least ten years. Every
October 31st, on Halloween, normal American children dress up as ghosts, mummies, ghouls
and vampires and make a party out of death.
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