Medical ethicist DANIEL CALLAHAN. His new book is "The Troubled Dream of Life: Living with Mortality." (Simon & Schuster). In it he looks at how our society views death: If death is a "part of life," why do we have such trouble accepting it? And how do our attitudes about death affect medical and social policy? CALLAHAN calls for a new understanding of death, so that it could be, "tolerable and familiar, affirmative of the bonds of community and social solidarity, expected with certainty and accepted without crippling fear."
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