When Deaths Are Dehumanized: Deathcare During COVID-19 as a Public Value Failure

Staci M. Zavattaro · Rebecca M. Entress · Jenna Tyler · Abdul-akeem Ademola Sadiq

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The COVID-19 pandemic, which is still gripping the world, brought death front and center into many people’s lives. In the United States, however, some of the deaths were treated as “more tragic” than others given someone’s economic use value coupled with dehumanizing language. Using Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, this is understood as a public values failure when economic productivity eclipses public health and humanity. Introducing a conceptual framework, this article explores this death narrative and implores public administrators to think about death management in a humane framing.

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