Death is built into the American social order, in education, sports, finance, insurance and government. Yet no one seems to be aware of this. Walt Whitman wrote that until America produces a great poem of death, its democracy will be a failure. (Saul Bellow)
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James J. Farrell (1982) studied this question.
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