Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Concept of death and adjustment

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The result was delete. Sandstein 20:51, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Concept of death and adjustment

Unredeemable WP:OR essay. It has been suggested that it be merged to Death and culture, but in any case there seems to be no reason for an article of this name. Note that this is related through authorship and content to Death and Adjustment Hypotheses which deleted earlier AFD) Mangoe (talk) 14:14, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete: While the article seems well sourced on its surface, after a deeper look, I have to agree that there is a lot of WP:SYNT involved in this article. Much of the article takes statements from various sources and strings them together to support new and original conclusions. It might be fixable, but it would take a lot of work. Blueboar (talk) 16:03, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, essay. Pavel Vozenilek (talk) 16:13, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
comment I agree with Blueboar, but the topic of preparation/adjustment to death is very important and too big to fit into existing Death or Death in culture. Are you sure that the article is unredeemable? NVO (talk) 06:09, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We perhaps could have an article on this subject under some name. What I'm seeing, however, is that is article is really an elaborate WP:COATRACK for Mohammad Samir Hossain. Freud and Kübler-Ross were psychologists; Becker was an anthropologist. Does all their stuff fit together? Well, that's why this thing is a synthesis! Heck, Dylan Thomas wrote a poem dedicated to not adjusting! Becker's thesis,by way of extreme contrast, is "that human civilization is ultimately an elaborate, symbolic defense mechanism against the knowledge of our mortality, which in turn acts as the emotional and intellectual response to our basic survival mechanism." (from our article on The Denial of Death, his magnum opus) A big part of the reason I prefer to see this deleted is that I have no idea where to file these ideas, except under Category:Death. It seems to be Samir Hossain's thesis that all of this stuff does go together on some less expansive level. Mangoe (talk) 13:48, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'm a little conflicted here. On the one hand, I think an article that listed/compared different theories of cultural responses to death and dying would be a good addition to Wikipedia and this seems to be the closest we have. On the other hand, this article seems to have the wrong viewpoint altogether, meaning that the it would need to be largely rewritten to avoid it being "original research" or at least "new synthesis". I'm also having trouble following exactly what the article is actually saying, which again points to a need for re-writing. Matt Deres (talk) 16:34, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.