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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... society , biological paternity is considerably less important than sociological paternity . Hence the faithful widow of a man who has died without a son will conscientiously try to become pregnant before the end of his Dry Funeral . The ...
... society , biological paternity is considerably less important than sociological paternity . Hence the faithful widow of a man who has died without a son will conscientiously try to become pregnant before the end of his Dry Funeral . The ...
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... society death is frequently interpreted as an insult , an intruder , as unnecessary , as superimposed to life . " This is an example of the rhetoric that has afflicted our society for some years now . It would be easy indeed to turn the ...
... society death is frequently interpreted as an insult , an intruder , as unnecessary , as superimposed to life . " This is an example of the rhetoric that has afflicted our society for some years now . It would be easy indeed to turn the ...
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... society , in spite of his own physical death .... · One can't help musing about one of the most advanced scientific societies of the 20th century that resorted to improvements on ancient Egyptian mummification techniques to embalm the ...
... society , in spite of his own physical death .... · One can't help musing about one of the most advanced scientific societies of the 20th century that resorted to improvements on ancient Egyptian mummification techniques to embalm 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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