... Interestingly, Kubler-Ross calls attention to American society's increasingly depersonalized approach to the aging and dying, and notices that our reliance on technology and machines is "our desperate attempt to deny the impending death which is so frightening and discomforting to us- to ultimately avoid "[reminding] us ... our unconscious mind we can only be killed; it is inconceivable to die of a natural cause or of old age."" Not wanting to be continuously reminded of this failure, the dying are isolated into nursing homes equipped with careless staff and the dead are buried in cemete...

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