There seems to be this fundamental assumption in society that the world is a just place, and bad things don’t happen to good people. But when bad things happen to good people, we just decide it’s not our problem. They didn’t ask for these things to happen to them, but we in society tend to see these problems happening and decide that it’s not our concern. We go about our daily lives outside of these problems comfortably, not concerning ourselves. It is this attitude exactly, that the lives of our fellow man do not concern us, that makes society a place where these huge disparities in quality of life- or death- exist. In this way, zones of social abandonment are created.
There are huge and well-known examples of the social production of death in society, as is what happens in many of these circumstances, throughout history. One such is the concentration camps during World War II, where millions of
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These people were considered by some to be those on the margins of society, those whose lives didn’t have quite the quality that those around them did. They were social outcasts, the unwanted. Despite this though, I would argue that the social production of death is even more common than this. Nursing home facilities aren’t always filled with just the elderly. Often in these places, you find those who suffer from mental or physical illness as well because there just isn’t any other place suitable to take care of them, and their family doesn’t want to claim responsibility or perhaps isn’t able to for other reasons. In recent years many health facilities that focused on psychiatric or alternative care have closed down, and so people with a wide range of problems are just thrown into nursing homes for some sort of care. However, these long-term care facilities do not respond with appropriate, efficacious, and compassionate interventions. When health situations are handled inappropriately, or not handled at all,