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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... idea of death , let alone of the inevitability of it . Slowly , primitive man must have started to ponder on the observation that none of the men who were old when he was a child were still alive , that as he got older more and more of ...
... idea of death , let alone of the inevitability of it . Slowly , primitive man must have started to ponder on the observation that none of the men who were old when he was a child were still alive , that as he got older more and more of ...
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... idea that was only floating on the surface of my soul , as delicate and feeble as all the rest , but in truth not only free from distress but mingled with that sweet feeling that people have who have let themselves slide into sleep . I ...
... idea that was only floating on the surface of my soul , as delicate and feeble as all the rest , but in truth not only free from distress but mingled with that sweet feeling that people have who have let themselves slide into sleep . I ...
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... idea of being reborn as a maharajah . One would expect that samsara could be equated with punishment only when it entailed rebirth in the form of some inferior animal but that it would be a source of relief from the fear of death for ...
... idea of being reborn as a maharajah . One would expect that samsara could be equated with punishment only when it entailed rebirth in the form of some inferior animal but that it would be a source of relief from the fear of death for ...
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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