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The drama of dying in the early twenty-first century
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This chapter concerns the drama of dying in the early twenty-first century: a time of increased awareness about issues relating to death and dying, but also of great uncertainty and worry about the end of life – specifically, the form it will take, its duration and the degree of agency one will have. Owing to the interventions of modern medicine, which continually work to extend life, dying in the early twenty-first century can be a protracted process, and may be burdensome both for the dying person and for care-givers. Achieving a ‘good death’ (whatever that might be) is not guaranteed or always readily accomplished. This chapter surveys contemporary attitudes toward death and dying and investigates how they are dramatised and staged in Carol Ann Duffy’s Everyman (2015), Marina Carr’s Woman and Scarecrow (2006), Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go (2015) and Kaite O’Reilly’s Cosy (2016).

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