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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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... tomb slabs and then , by a sort of natural development , these two dimensional effigies evolved into more and more complex three dimensional representations that culminated in the monumental tombs of the seventeenth , eighteenth and ...
... tomb slabs and then , by a sort of natural development , these two dimensional effigies evolved into more and more complex three dimensional representations that culminated in the monumental tombs of the seventeenth , eighteenth and ...
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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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