Download or read book Western Attitudes Toward Death written by Philippe Ariès and published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1974-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aris traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of the human race to the modern tendency, so pronounced in industrial societies, to hide death as if it were an embarrassing family secret." -- Newsweek