A history of human responses to death: mythologies, rituals, and ethics
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A HISTORY OF
HUMAN RESPONSES TO DEATH
Mythologies, Rituals, and Ethics
Plinio Prioreschi
Studies in Health and Human Services
Volume 17
The Edwin Mellen Press
Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
FOREWORD xiii
Notes xv
CHAPTER I - Man and death 3
a) Definition of death 6
b) The necessity of death - The Second Law 11
c) The impossibility of death 19
Notes 32
CHAPTER II - Death as a natural phenomenon 37
a) Non-biological death 37
b) Biological death 43
c) The limits of life 66
Notes 72
CHAPTER III - Death and philosophy 75
a) Antiquity 75
b) Renaissance 87
c) Modern word 93
d) Contemporary philosophy 105
Notes 115
CHAPTER IV - Death and Religion 120
a) Antiquity 120
b) Judaism 130
c)Christianity 141
d) Hinduism 155
e) Buddhism 168
f) Islam 181
Notes 189
CHAPTER V - The pageant of death 196
a) Disposal of the corpse 196
v b) Death customs in Europe and the Western
World 203
c) Death customs among the American Indians 219
d) Death customs in the East 223
d) Death customs in Africa 233
f) Death customs among the Eskimo 239
Notes 244
CHAPTER VI - Ethics and death 250
a) The dying patient 250
b) Mercy killing 275
Notes 293
CHAPTER VII - Inflicted death 299
a) Mors politica 299
b) Murder 307
c) Death penalty 312
d) Abortion 324
e) Suicide 332
Notes 352
CHAPTER VIII - Death and art 357
a) Literature 358
b) Figurative arts 378
c) Music 399
Notes 409
CHAPTER IX - Death, fear, and courage 417
a) Heroism and heroization 417
b) Timor mortis 425
c) Humor 441
Notes 445
CHAPTER X - The Mythology of death 448
a) Undead 448
b) Ghosts 455
c) Spiritism
t 467
d) Unexplained death 472
Notes 481
CONCLUSIONS 485
Notes 496
INDEX 499
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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