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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 42
Seite 28
... tomb and remember his life and deeds , often spelled out on the stone . Tombs were often built along busy roads so that there would be many passersby . The belief in life after death was weak and , as a kind of insurance , it was felt ...
... tomb and remember his life and deeds , often spelled out on the stone . Tombs were often built along busy roads so that there would be many passersby . The belief in life after death was weak and , as a kind of insurance , it was felt ...
Seite 207
... tombs that lined the roads . The best known are those along the Via Appia . The tomb would have an epitaph giving biographical information about the deceased and also a request for remembrance in the form of an address to the passing ...
... tombs that lined the roads . The best known are those along the Via Appia . The tomb would have an epitaph giving biographical information about the deceased and also a request for remembrance in the form of an address to the passing ...
Seite 213
... tombs , are , of course , attempts to survive death , to continue existing in this world , after the body has ceased ... tombs were similar throughout the Western World : ... a bit of countryside and nature , a pretty English garden in a ...
... tombs , are , of course , attempts to survive death , to continue existing in this world , after the body has ceased ... tombs were similar throughout the Western World : ... a bit of countryside and nature , a pretty English garden in a ...
Inhalt
Man and death | 3 |
b The necessity of death The Second | 11 |
c The impossibility of death | 19 |
Urheberrecht | |
12 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
A History of Human Responses to Death: Mythologies, Rituals, and Ethics Plinio Prioreschi Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1990 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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