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Canada From Afar is the fruit of the remarkable flowering of obituary writing in the London Daily Telegraph during the past ten years. These lively portraits of Canadians are informed, witty, sometimes quirky, occasionally iconoclastic.They include royal courtiers, politicians, businessmen, soldiers, sailors, airmen, scientists, explorers, novelists, artists, and even journalists. Among the prominent Canadians viewed from afar are persons such as Margaret Laurence, Joey Smallwood, K.C. Irving, Raymond Burr and A.J. Casson.
Obituaries --- Newspapers --- Biography --- Dead --- Death notices --- Sections, columns, etc. --- Canada
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A selection of the two hundred best obituaries that have appeared in ""The Economist"" since the first one was published in 1995. It includes Jean Bedel Bokassa and Pope Jean Paul II, Pamela Harriman and Harry Oppenheimer, Akio Morita and J K Galbraith, Jean Baudrillard and Syd Barrett, and Estee Lauder and Hunter Thomson.
Biography --- Obituaries. --- Newspapers --- Dead --- Death notices --- History, Modern --- Twentieth century --- Sections, columns, etc.
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With grim humor and humorous grimness, In Search of the Great Dead engages the great themes of poetry: death and fame. The title poem of this collection records Richard Cecil's quest for the tombs of the famous dead. At first the search leads him on a tour of famous European tombstones-the grave of Chateaubriand in St. Malo, the shared tomb of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Yeats's old Celtic cross in Sligo-but gradually it expands into areas where all the tombs have been erased by time or vandalism-the tombs of
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The human body is the locus of meaning, personhood, and our sense of the possibility of sanctity. The desecration of the human corpse is a matter of universal revulsion, taboo in virtually all human cultures. Not least for this reason, the unburied corpse quickly becomes a focal point of political salience, on the one hand seeming to express the contempt of state power toward the basic claims of human dignity--while on the other hand simultaneously bringing into question the very legitimacy of that power. In Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead, James Martel surveys the power of the body left unburied to motivate resistance, to bring forth a radically new form of agency, and to undercut the authority claims made by state power. Ranging across time and space from the battlefields of ancient Thebes to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and taking in perspectives from such writers as Sophocles, Machiavelli, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Judith Butler, Thomas Lacqueur, and Bonnie Honig, Martel asks why the presence of the abandoned corpse can be seen by both authorities and protesters as a source of power, and how those who have been abandoned or marginalized by structures of authority can find in a lifeless body fellow accomplices in their aspirations for dignity and humanity.
Society & culture: general --- Dead --- Death --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Philosophy
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This book tells the story of the thousands of corpses that ended up in the hands of anatomists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composed as a travel story from the point of view of the cadaver, this study offers a full-blown cultural history of death and dissection, with insights that easily go beyond the history of anatomy and the specific case of Belgium. From acquisition to disposal, the trajectories of the corpse changed under the influence of social policies, ideological tensions, religious sensitivities, cultures of death and broader changes in the field of medical ethics. Anatomists increasingly had to reconcile their ways with the diverse meanings that the dead body held. To a certain extent, as this book argues, they started to treat the corpse as subject rather than object. Interweaving broad historical evolutions with detailed case studies, this book offers unique insights into a field dominated by Anglo-American perspectives, evaluating the similarities and differences within other European contexts.
Dead. --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Europe, Central—History. --- Medicine—History. --- History. --- Civilization—History. --- Social history. --- History of Germany and Central Europe. --- History of Medicine. --- History of Science. --- Cultural History. --- Social History. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history
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Do the dead have rights? In a persuasive argument, Don Herzog makes the case that the deceased's interests should be protected This is a delightfully deceptive works that start out with a simple, seemingly arcane question-can you libel or slander the dead?-and develops it outward, tackling larger and larger implications, until it ends up straddling the borders between law, culture, philosophy, and the meaning of life. A full answer to this question requires legal scholar Don Herzog to consider what tort law is actually designed to protect, what differences death makes-and what differences it doesn't-and why we value what we value. Herzog is one of those rare scholarly writers who can make the most abstract argument compelling and entertaining.
Dead. --- Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Law and legislation
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Archives --- Memorialization --- Dead --- Political aspects. --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Memorialisation --- Memorials --- Documents --- Manuscript depositories --- Manuscript repositories --- Manuscripts --- Documentation --- History --- Information services --- Records --- Cartularies --- Charters --- Diplomatics --- Public records --- Depositories --- Repositories
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Death was a constant, visible presence in medieval and renaissance Europe. Yet, the acknowledgement of death did not necessarily amount to an acceptance of its finality. Whether they were commoners, clergy, aristocrats, or kings, the dead continued to function literally as integrated members of their communities long after they were laid to rest in their graves. From stories of revenants bringing pleas from Purgatory to the living, to the practical uses and regulation of burial space; from the tradition of the ars moriendi, to the depiction of death on the stage; and from the making of martyrs, to funerals for the rich and poor, this volume examines how communities dealt with their dead as continual, albeit non-living members.
Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Dead --- History. --- Europe --- History --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Obituaries --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Mourning customs --- Philosophy --- E-books --- Dead. --- Death. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- 476-1517 --- Europe. --- Cryomation --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia
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Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and ethical uses by communities, public institutions and civil society organisations. This work presents a ground-breaking account of the treatment and commemoration of dead bodies resulting from incidents of genocide and mass violence. Through a range of international case studies across multiple continents, it explores the effect of dead bodies or body parts on various political, cultural and religious practices. Multidisciplinary in scope, it will appeal to readers interested in this crucial phase of post-conflict reconciliation, including students and researchers of history, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, law, politics and modern warfare.
Human remains (Archaeology) --- Dead --- Victims of violent crimes. --- Genocide --- Social aspects. --- Sociological aspects. --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Sociology of genocide --- Sociology --- Victims of violence --- Victims of crimes --- Violent crimes --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Bioarchaeology --- Anthropology --- Archaeology --- War Crimes --- death --- exhumation --- human remains --- post-conflict --- modern warfare --- mass violence --- burial --- violence --- forensics --- Alsace --- Cadaver --- Germany --- Herero people --- Nazism --- The Holocaust
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This volume chronicles not only a human corpse's physical state but also its legal and moral status, including what rights, if any, the corpse possesses. The author argues that a corpse maintains a "quasi-human status" granting it certain protected rights-both legal and moral. One of a corpse's purported rights is to have its predecessor's disposal choices upheld. This work reviews unconventional ways in which a person can extend a personal legacy via their corpse's role in medical education, scientific research, or tissue transplantation. The author outlines the limits that post-mortem "human dignity" poses upon disposal options, particularly the use of a cadaver or its parts in educational or artistic displays. Contemporary illustrations of these complex issues abound.
Sacrilege. --- Offenses against the person. --- Burial laws. --- Dead --- Human body --- Dead bodies (Law) --- Church desecration --- Desecration --- Offenses against religion --- Host desecration accusation --- Taboo --- Abuse of persons --- Crimes against persons --- Crimes against the person --- Offenses against persons --- Crime --- Persons --- Burial --- Mortuary law --- Cemeteries --- Undertakers and undertaking --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Law --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation. --- Law and legislation --- Dead bodies (Law).
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