... books, statistics or television. Constant news breaks remind us of the rising death toll and increase anxiety and awareness of a fate we will all one day share. It could be human nature alone that creates a preoccupation with death, a fear that probably reaches back to our country's beginning. Peter J. Ahrensdorf states, in his article in The American Political Science Review, that "the modern ... undertaking is questioned in Delillo's White Noise when Jack asks, "What do I do to make death less strange? How do I go about it?--Do I scale the sheer fazade of a ninety-story building, wear...

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