Talk:The Order of the Good Death
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Merger proposal edit
Death-positive movement appears to be a fork mostly of The Order of the Good Death, and somewhat of the Caitlin Doughty bio. The ideas surrounding death acceptance go back decades in sources at Google books, and millennia if you consider Stoicism or the daily contact with death in the middle ages, the prime source of Doughty's early research in this. Her books contain endless examples of death positivity around the world from time immemorial. The more modern movement traces to 1963's The American Way of Death and 1973's The Denial of Death, which Doughty credits. Doughty does cite a google search for evidence that there weren't any websites devoted to death acceptance in 2013, but she doesn't really claim to be the inventor of the term or the originator of the movement. It's probably a WP:BLP violation to to suggest that she giving herself so much credit. Her writings do not say that she did.
This article should redirect to The Order of the Good Death, and the hyperbole and primary sourced assertions should be cleaned up to pare back the overstatements. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 07:18, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
- Going to go ahead and merge since nobody has objected. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:31, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
Response edit
This is all fair enough. I have since cleaned up the information on it and reworded it to say Doughty popularized the term, not that she came up with it. Any further citations regarding the earlier books and ideas you mention would be welcome. Are you suggesting that "Death-positive movement" be given a segment on "The Order of the Good Death" page instead of its whole own page? Because I am ok with this. --Feliciapulo (talk) 1:51 pm, 24 March 2018 (EDT) —Preceding undated comment added 17:53, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
