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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Mythologies, Rituals, and Ethics Plinio Prioreschi. religious beliefs , based on faith , of the next several ... religion , for long ignored by the intellectual elite , had also become generally discredited . In this spiritual vacuum ...
Mythologies, Rituals, and Ethics Plinio Prioreschi. religious beliefs , based on faith , of the next several ... religion , for long ignored by the intellectual elite , had also become generally discredited . In this spiritual vacuum ...
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... religious interpretation of death may not be necessarily accompanied by religious belief on the part of the author . Brahms , as mentioned above , was not a believer and , as pointed out by Gerber , " in the German Requiem the composer ...
... religious interpretation of death may not be necessarily accompanied by religious belief on the part of the author . Brahms , as mentioned above , was not a believer and , as pointed out by Gerber , " in the German Requiem the composer ...
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... religion would be an effective antidote . There is , however , evidence that , in most cases , it is not So : The religious person , when compared to the nonreligious individual , is personally more afraid of death .... [ For the latter ] ...
... religion would be an effective antidote . There is , however , evidence that , in most cases , it is not So : The religious person , when compared to the nonreligious individual , is personally more afraid of death .... [ For the latter ] ...
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Man and death | 3 |
Death as a natural phenomenon | 37 |
Death and philosophy | 75 |
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