Boyd K
J Med Ethics. 1977 Sep;3(3):124-8. doi: 10.1136/jme.3.3.124.
Men have been talking of death from time immemorial - sometimes sublimely in prose and poetry, in painting and sculpture and in music - till silence seemed to fall in the recent past. Now men are again talking about death - interminably but colloquially. They talk on television, on the radio, in books and in pamphlets. Dr Kenneth Boyd therefore finds it entirely timely to offer this historical sketch of attitudes to death. The earlier part of his paper covers fairly familiar ground but his final and longest section on the work of a social historian, Philippe Ariès, may be new to many. Ariès is reinterpreting the long history of attitudes to death in a form which may well interest those who today are concerned with helping modern man to accept his own death - death which still, for most people, is the death of another, not of oneself.
自古以来，人们一直在谈论死亡——有时在散文、诗歌、绘画、雕塑和音乐中表现得崇高——直到最近似乎陷入了沉默。现在人们又开始没完没了但又通俗地谈论死亡。他们在电视、广播、书籍和小册子中谈论。因此，肯尼斯·博伊德博士认为，提供这样一份关于对死亡态度的历史概述是非常及时的。他论文的前半部分涉及的是相当熟悉的领域，但他最后也是最长的一部分关于社会历史学家菲利普·阿里耶斯的著作，可能对许多人来说是新鲜的。阿里耶斯正在以一种很可能会引起那些当今关心帮助现代人接受自己死亡的人兴趣的形式，重新诠释对死亡态度的漫长历史——而对大多数人来说，死亡仍然是他人的死亡，而非自己的死亡。
