ATTITUDES TOWARD DEATH

[摘要] [Death in the Middle Ages] was . . . A public ceremony. The dying man's bedchamber became a public place to be entered freely. . . . It was essential that parents, friends, and neighbors be present. Children were brought in; until the eighteenth century no portrayal of a deathbed scene failed to include children. And to think of how carefully people today keep children away from anything having to do with death!

[学科分类] 儿科学