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. E ) SUICIDE There is but one truly serious philosophical problem , and that is suicide . Albert Camus Suicide ( from the Latin sui , of oneself , and caedere , to kill ) is among the ...
Mythologies, Rituals, and Ethics Plinio Prioreschi. E ) SUICIDE There is but one truly serious philosophical problem , and that is suicide . Albert Camus Suicide ( from the Latin sui , of oneself , and caedere , to kill ) is among the ...
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... Suicide is the most fatal of sins , because it cannot be repented of " ( Summa Theologica , ii . - ii , A64.5.3 . ) . We find that the Christian burial was denied to suicides as early as A.D. 563. The Roman Church to this day , by ...
... Suicide is the most fatal of sins , because it cannot be repented of " ( Summa Theologica , ii . - ii , A64.5.3 . ) . We find that the Christian burial was denied to suicides as early as A.D. 563. The Roman Church to this day , by ...
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... suicide too is an absurdity that causes my life to become submerged in the absurd.46 Although the roots of suicide are undoubtedly many ( mental illness , genetic factors , circumstances , etc. ) , when we think of suicide as an ...
... suicide too is an absurdity that causes my life to become submerged in the absurd.46 Although the roots of suicide are undoubtedly many ( mental illness , genetic factors , circumstances , etc. ) , when we think of suicide as an ...
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Man and death | 3 |
Death as a natural phenomenon | 37 |
Death and philosophy | 75 |
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