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CHAPTER 2
Chapter Outline
Defining Death
International Definitions
American Definitions
The Meaning of Dying and Death
The Social Meaning
Deriving Meaning from the Audience
Deriving Meaning from the Situation
Death as a Lost Relationship
Creating and Changing Death-Related Meaning
The American Experience of Death
Living Death (1600-1830)
The Dying of Death (1830-1945)
The Resurrection of Death (1945 to the Present)
Contemporary Attitudes Toward Death
Denial or Acceptance of Death?
Fearing Death?
Content of Death Fears
Death Fears, Gender, and Age
Relieving Death Anxiety Through Religion
Contemplating One’s Own Death
Conclusion
Summary
Discussion Questions
Glossary
Suggested Readings
2. According to the United Nations’ definition of death, a death cannot occur until a
live birth has taken place. True
3. The Harvard definition of death defines death in terms of respiration and heart
functioning. False
7. Using euphemisms for death suggests that the United States is a death-denying
society. True
8. According to Leming and Dickinson, the fear of the unknown and the fate of the
body are the two areas of greatest anxiety for most people. False
9. For most people the process of dying causes less concern than the event of death.
False
10. In thanatology “death fear” and “death anxiety” are used synonymously. True
12. It is only in recent years that we have been able to scientifically determine the
real meaning of death. False
13. The meaning of death is socially determined by human beings rather than
determined biologically. True
14. In all likelihood, the meaning of death may change in the future as it has in the
past. True
19. The empirical research by Michael Leming supported Homans’ theorizing on the
relationship between religion and death anxiety. True
20. People tend to fear the process of dying more than the event of death. True
21. Between 1600 and 1830, death was a living part of the American experience.
True
22. Like modern thanatologists, Puritans felt an awareness of death could improve
the quality of life. True
24. At the time of death, the Puritan family usually sent for a medical doctor to care
for the corpse. False
25. It was customary for Puritans to embalm the body before burial. False
26. Puritans were more likely to pray for the soul of the deceased than they were for
the comfort of the bereaved. False
27. At the beginning of the 20th century, the funeral industry attempted to keep
death out of sight and out of mind. True
28. Middle-class Americans in the late 19th century wished to experience death
with order. True
29. The “ideology of separate spheres” in the late 19th century contributed to more
open discussion of death in American society. False
30. During the Victorian era in American society, grievers were encouraged to
express their emotions in response to the death of a loved one. False
31, Scientific naturalism contributed to the hope that physical immortality might be
a possibility for future Americans. True
32. The threat of “megadeath” war inherently calls into question the possibility of
all forms of immortality. True
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Columbus, Christopher, born, 1;
translated, 3;
anecdotes of boyhood, 5;
goes to Pavia, 9;
becomes sailor, 11;
engages in Neapolitan expedition, 12;
deceives sailors or posterity, 13;
does not arrive in Portugal, 16;
does arrive there, 18;
marries, 19;
makes maps, 20;
lives at Porto Santo, 21;
goes to Iceland or elsewhere, 28;
talks to King John, 35;
goes to Spain, 38;
deposited with Quintanilla, 41;
meets Scientific Congress, 43;
goes to Convent of Rabida, 49;
meets committee on exploration, 54;
starts for France, 56;
goes to Palos, 61;
sails on first voyage, 67;
keeps false reckoning, 72;
discovers San Salvador, 89;
sails for Spain, 97;
wrecked, 102;
founds colony, 105;
sees Mermaids, 110;
displays seamanship, 115;
arrives at Azores, 116;
arrives at Palos, 125;
flattens egg, 135;
sails on second voyage, 138;
discovers Dominica, 141;
returns to Spain, 191;
loses popularity, 196;
sails on third voyage, 200;
discovers Trinidad, 204;
invents ingenious theory, 205;
arrives at Hispaniola, 208;
arrested, 228;
sent to Spain, 229;
arrives in Spain, 230;
sails on fourth voyage, 237;
reaches Honduras, 240;
searches for Panama Canal, 240;
founds colony at Veragua, 243;
sails away, 250;
reaches Jamaica, 251;
manages lunar eclipse, 258;
reaches Hispaniola, 262;
returns to Spain, 264;
dies, 268;
is extensively buried, 268;
perhaps is a sun-myth, 269;
character, 284.
Columbus, Diego, born, 4;
Governor of Isabella, 162;
sent to Spain to wait for opening in Connecticut, 177;
returns to Hispaniola, 187;
arrested by Bobadilla, 227.
Columbus, Dominico, combs wool, 3.
Compass, variation of, 55.
Congress of Salamanca, 46;
its tediousness, 45.
Correo, Pedro, 21;
he winks, 25;
is talked to death, 34.
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