Now We Can Talk About Death, from Life in the USA: The Complete Guide for Immigrants and Americans

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Life in the USA
Death in America
American Attitudes

Now We Can Talk About It
Americans are becoming more accepting of death as a subject of conversation and inquiry, however, with the publication of such books as Beyond Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford. The hospice movement, where special centers are set up to give people a chance to die in comfort and with dignity, has been a positive development. Nevertheless, death frightens the average American. An enormous number of Americans believe in life after death, past-lives, reincarnation or some other theory of immortality.

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