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The background for the O’Donovan-Ramsey exchange is Ramsey’s landmark article “The Indignity of Death With Dignity,” in which, according to Ramsey, he aimed to challenge philosophical attempts to trivialize death by naturalizing or idealizing it. Ramsey saw these as avoidance mechanisms, “to quiet the dread of death without dealing with it.” Thus Ramsey wanted to demolish superficial dealings with death and assert that “where fear is, love (care) is not perfected.”
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O’Donovan, O. (2002). Keeping Body and Soul Together. In: Vaux, K.L., Vaux, S., Stenberg, M. (eds) Covenants of Life. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9898-9_4
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