death

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  3/1/2023
  

  Is Globalization Changing Mexico's Relationship to Death?

  by Humberto Beck

  Post-revolutionary Mexico embraced cultural commemorations of the dead—Diá de los Muertos—to help conceal the violence of the regime's rise. Now, that "traditional" culture is again being transformed by global cultural appropriation and the escalating violence of global drug trafficking.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10-10-17 (accessed)
  

  What Do We Do with Our Dead?

  by Jill Lepore

  Our mortuary conventions reveal a lot about our relation to the past.

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• 12-4-16
  

  When Is Someone Dead?

  by Robert M. Veatch and Lainie F. Ross

  Since the 1950s that’s become a hotly contested question.

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• Seeking the Good Death

  by Emily K. Abel

  Pediatric ward, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, 1907.Although most terminally ill Americans define a good death as one that occurs at home surrounded by family, a high proportion of people die alone in hospitals, tethered to machines. And many high technology treatments administered to dying patients impose enormous financial costs and inflict additional suffering without significantly extending life.

• SOURCE: Discovery News
  1-16-13
  

  Famed Warrior Medici Died From Gangrene

  The legendary Renaissance warrior Giovanni de’ Medici did not die from an improperly amputated leg, as widely believed, but an infection.Also known as “Giovanni dalle Bande Nere” for the black bands of mourning he wore after the death of Pope Leo X, the 16th century army commander was exhumed last November from his tomb in the Medici Chapels in Florence. Researchers also exhumed the bones of his wife, Maria Salviati.The couple married in 1516, when she was 17 and he was 18. The marriage produced only one child: Cosimo I, who reigned as the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, creating the Uffizi and the magnificent Boboli Gardens as well as finishing the Pitti Palace....