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Previous Volume 336:970 March 27, 1997 Number 13

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Edited by Howard M. Spiro, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer Wandel. 205 pp., illustrated. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1996. $27.50. ISBN 0-300-06349-0.

One sentence in this book fairly leaps off the page. In one of several short essays depicting the responses of people in various cultures to death, historian John Demos reproduces a description of the dying days of Sarah Lippet, an 18th-century New Jersey woman. Close to the end Mrs. Lippet drifted in and out of sleep. Waking at one point, she turned to those assembled at her bedside and said, "Don't let me go asleep again, for I want to know when I die."

How startling to the modern reader! How unusual for us, with our crash carts, defibrillators, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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