A History of Human Responses to Death: Mythologies, Rituals, and EthicsE. Mellen Press, 1990 - 508 Seiten This study examines death and its impact on human thinking from a biological and historical viewpoint. It finds that fear of death is the motive behind the human need to accomplish anything. It also discusses care of the terminally ill, mercy killing, suicide, and the death penalty. |
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... causes of death . Most traumatic deaths were no longer due to large carnivores or hunting accidents , but to an organized human activity that had become preeminent : war . As a main cause of death , war ( and its common side - effect ...
... causes of death . Most traumatic deaths were no longer due to large carnivores or hunting accidents , but to an organized human activity that had become preeminent : war . As a main cause of death , war ( and its common side - effect ...
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... cause of death ? The fact is that old age is not among the immediate causes of death . Nobody dies of old age . Old age plays a facilitating role in the development of the events that are the cause of death , but , in itself , it does not ...
... cause of death ? The fact is that old age is not among the immediate causes of death . Nobody dies of old age . Old age plays a facilitating role in the development of the events that are the cause of death , but , in itself , it does not ...
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... cause of death was ascertained . However , at autopsy , these patients had bronchopneumonia , pulmonary edema , pulmonary infarction , and aspirations . Their deaths were attributed to aging because no lesions were found of the ...
... cause of death was ascertained . However , at autopsy , these patients had bronchopneumonia , pulmonary edema , pulmonary infarction , and aspirations . Their deaths were attributed to aging because no lesions were found of the ...
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Man and death | 3 |
b The necessity of death The Second | 11 |
c The impossibility of death | 19 |
Urheberrecht | |
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A History of Human Responses to Death: Mythologies, Rituals, and Ethics Plinio Prioreschi Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1990 |
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abortion afterlife ancient animals annihilation Atman Attitudes Toward Death become belief body brain death Buddha Buddhism burial buried called cause century Christian Church committed concept concerning considered continue corpse course cremation crime D.J. Enright D.S. Brewer Davidson and W.M.S. dead Death and Existence Death and Western death penalty deceased disease doctrine dying Elizabeth Kübler-Ross energy entropy Erwin Panofsky eschatology eternal euthanasia evident example fact fear of death feeling Folklore of Ghosts funerary Herman Feifel Hinduism human Ibid individual Jacques Choron John McManners Judaism killed living Macmillan Company man's maximum life span means Middle Ages mortal murder nature Oxford pain patient person Philippe Ariès Philosophical Library Plinio Prioreschi primitive problem of death punishment Quoted reason religion religious Renaissance resurrection Roman samsara sculpture Second Law Sheol soul span spirit suffering suicide survival thou tombs tradition Translation University Press usually W.M.S. Russell Western Thought words York