Abstract
Social scientific and humanities accounts of death have long spoken of the medicalisation of death in contemporary societies, particularly Western ones. According to these arguments, modern medicine treats death as a failure to be avoided. This special is
Highlights
Social scientific and humanities accounts of death have long spoken of the medicalisation of death in contemporary societies, Western ones
It was observed that all the people who made their presence felt across the great mist had died in incidents that been reported widely and whose deaths were uncovered by Google, which called the medium’s abilities into question, for many, and made her motives seem suspect
Anyone who was even vaguely aware of what had been going on in Iceland at the time would immediately have recognised the young man who made an appearance at the séance and the circumstances in which he met his fate
Summary
Social scientific and humanities accounts of death have long spoken of the medicalisation of death in contemporary societies, Western ones. His death with his young girlfriend was tragic, while at the same time one of the best known stories of organ donation in Iceland, certainly in recent years. Later on in this article I return to this story and other stories of car accidents and organ donation in Iceland, in order to speculate on changing conceptions of death in the country and in particular in relation to developments in advanced medical knowledge and practice.
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