| Description |
558 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Epicurus -- Epictetus -- Lucretius -- Humanism -- Wittgenstein -- Existentialism and death: a critique of Tolstoy, Sartre, Heideggar -- Shakespear -- Emily Dickinson -- Dylan Thomas -- Psychiartry, Psychology, and Philosophical Psychology -- Freud -- Child's view of death -- Sociology of death -- Medical-psychological definition of death -- Abortion -- Religion -- John Donne -- Art of dying -- Death in art -- Psychic phenomena and death -- Mark Twain -- The funeral industry -- Critique of the criticisms of Mitford and Harmer -- Memorial Societies -- Historical theories of prolongation -- Biology of aging |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 525-558 |
| Subject |
Death.
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Attitude to Death.
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Death.
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Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
72082990 |
| ISBN |
0912386053 |
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0912386061 (paperback) |
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