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Death : a reader / Mary Ann G. Cutter

Cutter, Mary Ann Gardell,i1957- [Verfasser]

Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019]

xxi, 290 Seiten

Thinking about death -- The nature of death -- Physical disintegration -- Psychological disintegration -- Reincarnation -- Resurrection -- Medical immortality -- Digital immortality -- An existential phenomenon of life -- The value of death -- Bad or good -- To be feared or not -- To be grieved and how -- The choice of death -- To be hastened or not : the case of suicide -- To be hastened or not : the case of treatment refusal -- To be hastened or not: the case of physician-assisted suicide -- The lessons of death -- A window into life -- Glossary of philosophical terms -- References

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-268-10053-7 ; 978-0-268-10052-0 ; 0-268-10053-5 ; 0-268-10052-7

BK 6120 LB 43880 MS 6300 MT 26400 CQ 7600