Death Hidden in the Shadows
Death is always here but as a culture we have pushed it behind closed doors. We don’t talk a lot or openly about death in our culture. It’s been hidden in the shadows. Since the beginning of the 1900’s, the dying process, for the most part in the US, has been pushed to hospitals and funeral homes.
Prior to around 1900, people stayed at home to die and their family and friends took care of them before the death and afterwards too, sitting with the body, washing and dressing it. Most people in the US now state that their preference is to die at home.