Drew Gilpin Faust writes about death and the American Civil War. Ms. Faust is the President of Harvard University and holds the Lincoln Professorship in History. Ms Faust writes about the meaning of the good death. This is the story of the development of the obligations government has towards those who give thier lives defending their country.
Ms. Faust also talks about the meaning of a good death and the changes in rituals regarding death as a result of the Civil War. I think it opens a door for us, today, to rethink living with death, its rituals and symbols. I believe that we have become estranged from death, we fear it and that explains the desire of some to end their own lives.
