How are We to Confront Death?

2012 Philosophy

Author : Françoise Dastur
Release : 2012
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 405/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book How are We to Confront Death? written by Françoise Dastur. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books offers a philosophical exploration and assessment of the various ways in which human societies have confronted the question of death and mortality. In a very accessible style, the author considers religion's attempt to make sense of death, science's attempt to evade death, and philosophy's attempt to embrace death as a fundamental and defining moment of what it means to be human.

Confronting Death

1988-12-22 Medical

Author : Richard W. Momeyer
Release : 1988-12-22
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 031/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Confronting Death written by Richard W. Momeyer. This book was released on 1988-12-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Well organized, well argued, and well written . . . " —Choice "It is a lively document, with vigorous arguments leading to opinions that are controversial but strongly held." —Joseph M. Foley, Medical Humanities Review " . . . Momeyer's book has much to recommend it . . . The book would surely be a suitable focus for an undergraduate course in dealing with the philosophical issues involving death and our attitudes towards it." —David J. Mayo, Teaching Philosophy "This book is valuable and important in bringing conceptual clarification to questions about dealing with death that are so often neglected or mishandled by social scientists and the counseling industry." —Ethics An examination of the moral and philosophical issues at work in an individual's confrontation of death, not as a matter of psychological necessity or social conditioning, but as a function of reflection and the search for self-knowledge.

Confronting Death in the School Family

2007 Education

Author : Dave Opalewski
Release : 2007
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 360/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Confronting Death in the School Family written by Dave Opalewski. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of a student or staff member can devastate a school and its surrounding community. Confronting Death in the School Family will provide guidelines and tools for adding a tragedy component to your Crisis Response Team.

Confronting the Death Penalty

2016 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Robin Conley
Release : 2016
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 161/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Confronting the Death Penalty written by Robin Conley. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Confronting the Death Penalty probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, Robin Conley explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors', attorneys', and judges' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials."--Provided by publisher.

A Chosen Death

1995 Assisted suicide

Author : Lonny Shavelson
Release : 1995
Genre : Assisted suicide
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Book Rating : 000/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Chosen Death written by Lonny Shavelson. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring moving accounts of terminally ill people who have faced the choice of ending their own lives, this book adds a profound human dimension to the debate over assisted suicide

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