In the 15th century, an unknown Dominican friar penned Ars - TopicsExpress



          

In the 15th century, an unknown Dominican friar penned Ars Moriendi, or The Art of Dying. At the time, it offered an immensely popular guide on the attainment of a good death and spawned a rash of translations and copycats across Europe. One wonders what its author would have made of the social and traditional media storm currently raging over the tweet-by-tweet demise of Lisa Bonchek Adams – a woman with metastatic breast cancer – and the two newspaper opinion pieces by husband and wife journalists decrying Adams public and private handling of her illness.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:49:20 +0000

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