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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... accepted slowly and with great reluctance . Signs of this resistance are still found among primitive peoples among whom death is often not considered the result of unavoidable natural processes , but as being caused by enemy actions ...
... accepted slowly and with great reluctance . Signs of this resistance are still found among primitive peoples among whom death is often not considered the result of unavoidable natural processes , but as being caused by enemy actions ...
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... accepted by practically all medical authorities . It is evident that if the brain is dead , the individual is dead . One would expect that , this being the case , such a proposition would be universally accepted and that all efforts ...
... accepted by practically all medical authorities . It is evident that if the brain is dead , the individual is dead . One would expect that , this being the case , such a proposition would be universally accepted and that all efforts ...
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... accepted the existence of a hereafter ( e.g. Pharisees ) and also because of the rabbinical amendments to the Biblical tradition concerning life after death . This is unlikely , however , because such beliefs were a relatively late ...
... accepted the existence of a hereafter ( e.g. Pharisees ) and also because of the rabbinical amendments to the Biblical tradition concerning life after death . This is unlikely , however , because such beliefs were a relatively late ...
Inhalt
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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