I had quite a visceral reaction to the article The Hour of our Death by Phillipe Aries (pages 40-48 of Death, Mourning, and Burial). I suppose its in the nature of reading the opinions of others, especially on a subject both as universal and dividing as death, that one will come across an opinion that one does not side with.

The way we fictionalize death is an extension of our thoughts on death. The attitude of death in our entertainment mediums reflect a snapshot in time of how out society and culture deals with death at that time, and the medium which can bring it to the mass market the fastest are comic books.

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson is comprised of five introductory pieces, the autobiography itself, and a concluding interview. Each of these framing pieces contributes to the style and shape of the narrative in their own way, providing a solid structure and foundation around which the world of Carson’s re-imagining of Stesichoros’s story fragments take place.