Abstract
From a biological perspective, death takes no more than a few seconds to happen. It begins “in one failing organ of the body and then simply spreads itself, meticulously switching off the lights as it leaves each room of the body” (Kellehear 2007: 2).Nevertheless, for many of us, the thought of death is ever-present. In fact, death and dying are intriguing topics for two principal reasons.
Everything that lives, dies. Equally – for it doesn’t follow – everything that dies will have lived.(Robert Rowland Smith, Death-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art, Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
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Parvaresh, V. (2017). Introduction: Death, Dying and the Pragmeme . In: Parvaresh, V., Capone, A. (eds) The Pragmeme of Accommodation: The Case of Interaction around the Event of Death. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55759-5_1
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