Death History. How We Struggle and Accept

We know how it ends. But what determines our attitude to our own death and someone's death? A new work by social anthropologist Sergei Mokhov is devoted to this problem. Why do we mourn for barely known celebrities, and why are the debates on euthanasia continuing? Why do tragic events like the fire in the Kemerovo shopping mall generate a split in social networks and how are our ideas about the death of loved ones and immortality changing in the 21st century? All these questions are weaving into history of ideas from ancient myths to modern techtopias, and that is the very time to make sense out of them, because when we talk about death, in fact, we are always talking about life.