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When I think about my own death I know I want to die when I have had time to prepare myself and when I have said goodbye to those I love. In this activity of contemplating my ideal death, I am sub-consciously drawing upon social representations of the good death. Representations of good or bad ways of dying are common to many different cultures. The quote given below, for example, describes the good death for the Lugbara people in Uganda.
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© 1996 Glennys Howarth and Peter C. Jupp
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Bradbury, M. (1996). Representations of ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Death among Deathworkers and the Bereaved. In: Howarth, G., Jupp, P.C. (eds) Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dying and Disposal. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24303-7_7
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