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What aspect of society does charles dickens criticize in this excerpt from oliver twist?

for instance; when sowerberry had an order for the burial of some rich old lady or gentleman, who was surrounded by a great number of nephews and nieces, who had been perfectly inconsolable during the previous illness, and whose grief had been wholly irrepressible even on the most public occasions, they would be as happy among themselves as need be—quite cheerful and contented—conversing together with as much freedom and gaiety, as if nothing whatever had happened to disturb them. husbands, too, bore the loss of their wives with the most heroic calmness. wives, again, put on weeds for their husbands, as if, so far from grieving in the garb of sorrow, they had made up their minds to render it as becoming and attractive as possible. it was observable, too, that ladies and gentlemen who were in passions of anguish during the ceremony of interment, recovered almost as soon as they reached home, and became quite composed before the tea-drinking was over. all this was very pleasant and improving to see; and oliver beheld it with great admiration.

a. differences in the outlook on death between the rich and poor
b. neglect of health by the working class population
c. the lack of adequate medicinal and health care facilities
d. an exaggerated show of grief to maintain respectability

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