Tag: Death and Dying
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Beauvoir’s Avled Stilla: Sandgren on children’s moral duty
Beauvoir’s quiet anatomy of dying Simone de Beauvoir’s Une mort très douce (Avled stilla in Swedish) is not a melodrama about the moment of death, but a precise, unflinching examination of what happens to family bonds when aging and illness intrude on everyday life. Lydia Sandgren’s recent reflections bring this 1960s meditation into a contemporary…
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Care, Truth, and the Moral Duty of Children in Beauvoir’s Une mort douce
Introduction: Beauvoir’s stark meditation on aging and care Simone de Beauvoir’s Une mort très douce, as translated in Swedish literature as Avled stilla, is more than a clinical memo of a dying mother. It is a disciplined meditation on the moral duties that fall on adult children when a parent’s body fails and the family…