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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... attempt to pull itself out of the wheel or even stop it . This inevitably give rise to suffering because nothing is exempt from change . The wheel cannot be stopped and nobody can leap off it . The only release from pain comes when one ...
... attempt to pull itself out of the wheel or even stop it . This inevitably give rise to suffering because nothing is exempt from change . The wheel cannot be stopped and nobody can leap off it . The only release from pain comes when one ...
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... attempt to comfort himself by trying to believe that forty - three is not such a young age after all . Another example : DOCTOR : Yes . After you had this news you must have been thinking about how it's going to be when you die . How ...
... attempt to comfort himself by trying to believe that forty - three is not such a young age after all . Another example : DOCTOR : Yes . After you had this news you must have been thinking about how it's going to be when you die . How ...
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... attempt to discredit the hero , but as an attempt to explain people's behavior toward him and toward those who are obviously not heroes but are perceived as such . We can explain in this way the hysterics of the admirers of some athlete ...
... attempt to discredit the hero , but as an attempt to explain people's behavior toward him and toward those who are obviously not heroes but are perceived as such . We can explain in this way the hysterics of the admirers of some athlete ...
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Man and death | 3 |
Death as a natural phenomenon | 37 |
Death and philosophy | 75 |
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 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 reaction reason religion religious Renaissance resurrection Roman samsara sculpture Second Law Sheol soul span spirit suffering suicide survival terminally ill thou tombs tradition Translation University Press usually Western Thought words York