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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... continued to gnaw the mind of man . It is because of this doubt that society , quite early , specified a mandatory period that has to elapse between the cessation of vital functions and the final disposal of the dead . Tales of horror ...
... continued to gnaw the mind of man . It is because of this doubt that society , quite early , specified a mandatory period that has to elapse between the cessation of vital functions and the final disposal of the dead . Tales of horror ...
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... continued to be the object of rabbinical inquiry and very often their conclusions have been in favor of the existence of an afterlife : A Venetian rabbi , Leone Modena ( 1571-1648 ) , in an essay representative of the rabbinic view ...
... continued to be the object of rabbinical inquiry and very often their conclusions have been in favor of the existence of an afterlife : A Venetian rabbi , Leone Modena ( 1571-1648 ) , in an essay representative of the rabbinic view ...
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... continued to put real victims as well as images for double safety . Obviously , there must be another explanation . We believe that this is to be found in compassion due to identification . In the course of the slow and painful ...
... continued to put real victims as well as images for double safety . Obviously , there must be another explanation . We believe that this is to be found in compassion due to identification . In the course of the slow and painful ...
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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 annihilation Atman Attitudes Toward Death become belief body Buddha Buddhism burial buried called caused century Christian Church committed concept concerning considered corpse course cremation crime D.J. Enright D.S. Brewer Davidson and W.M.S. dead Death and Existence death and immortality Death and Western death penalty deceased doctrine dying Elizabeth Kübler-Ross Ellis Davidson Erwin Panofsky eschatology eternal euthanasia evident example fact fear of death feeling Folklore of Ghosts funerary Herman Feifel hero Hinduism human Ibid immortality individual Jacques Choron John Langone John McManners Judaism killed living Macmillan Company man's maximum life span means Middle Ages mortal murder Old Testament pain patient person Philippe Ariès Philosophical Library Plinio Prioreschi primitive problem of death punishment Quoted reason religion religious Renaissance resurrection Roman samsara sculpture Sheol soul spirit suffering suicide survival terminally ill thou tombs tradition Translation University Press usually Western Thought York