Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... death . And we will talk about love . All are really different facets of the same thing . " " Since then [ the case of clinically dead Mrs. Schwartz who revived to tell her experiences ] I've had hundreds of cases of people who have had ...
... death . And we will talk about love . All are really different facets of the same thing . " " Since then [ the case of clinically dead Mrs. Schwartz who revived to tell her experiences ] I've had hundreds of cases of people who have had ...
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... death and the unknown . The " death doctor " ( for that is what thanatologist means ) is not a witch doctor ritualizing primitive taboos in gyrations or mystagogical incantations . He may be the first medic to introduce you to the ...
... death and the unknown . The " death doctor " ( for that is what thanatologist means ) is not a witch doctor ritualizing primitive taboos in gyrations or mystagogical incantations . He may be the first medic to introduce you to the ...
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... death with dignity is as much a human right as birth or its sub- sequent personal treatment . On the other hand , there is a danger that when thanatology becomes a perfunctory therapeutic " man- agement " of death by techniques alone ...
... death with dignity is as much a human right as birth or its sub- sequent personal treatment . On the other hand , there is a danger that when thanatology becomes a perfunctory therapeutic " man- agement " of death by techniques alone ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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