The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Towards Death Over the Last One Thousand Years

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This remarkable book -- the fruit of almost two decades of study -- traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day.

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