Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... possible for you by a wise and loving , if unlettered , father , erstwhile fish merchant now wealthy and ennobled . He admired learning and wanted you to shine before the world and the celebrated guests whom he could now afford to ...
... possible for you by a wise and loving , if unlettered , father , erstwhile fish merchant now wealthy and ennobled . He admired learning and wanted you to shine before the world and the celebrated guests whom he could now afford to ...
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... possible . The cardinal point in this philosophy and its structure is to affirm life and integrate dying as a normal process . Services are as personalized as human nature is . Families , a sine non qua , cooperate with patients and a ...
... possible . The cardinal point in this philosophy and its structure is to affirm life and integrate dying as a normal process . Services are as personalized as human nature is . Families , a sine non qua , cooperate with patients and a ...
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... possible replacements of untenable tradition . Take John Keats , for example , who faced the problem of dying young . His first reaction was a normal one : fear . A tough , stocky , square - jawed adolescent with a " hands off ...
... possible replacements of untenable tradition . Take John Keats , for example , who faced the problem of dying young . His first reaction was a normal one : fear . A tough , stocky , square - jawed adolescent with a " hands off ...
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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