Talk:The Denial of Death

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Removed the following:

There is now a movie based on this book called Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality [1]to be available on DVD August or September 2005.

This can be stuck back in when it is actually released. -- Karada 23:32, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism

Added a criticism section but can't seem to get the ref tag to work. Please correct if you know how. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.185.218 (talk) 23:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Why was the criticism section removed? Putting it back unless there is a reasonable explanation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.185.218 (talk) 00:02, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I have removed the criticism section. An article this small does not need its own criticism section, please rework it into the main article. Also I don't believe a college essay is a good reference for wikipedia and the other references had little to do with this book. TimL 03:48, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

TimL: Why should the size of an article determine whether or not it has a criticism section? To me it's the ideas held within that matter.

I can see your argument against using a college paper, but I disagree with the idea that the other references had little to do with the book. From Denial of Death:

"Societies are standardized systems of death denial that give structure to rituals of heroic transcendence."

The UCLA paper specifically addresses this key concept as well as others stated throughout the book. Thoughts? 71.127.253.242 19:45, 31 October 2007 (UTC)