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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... practice was prohibited by Christianity in the late Roman empire , because such a total and immediate destruction of ... practiced until relatively recent times , when it has experienced a revival . Cremation is the usual method of ...
... practice was prohibited by Christianity in the late Roman empire , because such a total and immediate destruction of ... practiced until relatively recent times , when it has experienced a revival . Cremation is the usual method of ...
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... practice for those who die on board ship . The practice of placing the body in a canoe and pushing it into the sea cannot strictly be called water burial ; it was practiced by people who were probably the descendants of immigrant tribes ...
... practice for those who die on board ship . The practice of placing the body in a canoe and pushing it into the sea cannot strictly be called water burial ; it was practiced by people who were probably the descendants of immigrant tribes ...
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... practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from incurable diseases . Hence the synonym , mercy killing . Throughout history , the practice had three purposes ( one or the other being prominent according to time and ...
... practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from incurable diseases . Hence the synonym , mercy killing . Throughout history , the practice had three purposes ( one or the other being prominent according to time 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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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