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Originally published in 1972, this anthology examines death through the eyes of great Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu and Western masters. Instructions and specific rites are set forth to enable people to guide the mind of the dying through death and the Intermediate stage which follows. The sections of Rebirth and Karma deal succinctly with these complex and often mis-understood doctrines.

Reincarnation. --- Death. --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Past-lives regression --- Rebirth --- Regression, Past-lives --- Pre-existence --- Soul --- Theosophy --- Transmigration --- Philosophy

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Filiz Peach provides a clear explanation of Jaspers philosophy of existence clarifying and reassessing the concept of death that is central to his thought.

Existentialism. --- Death --- Existentialisme --- Mort --- Jaspers, Karl, --- Death. --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Existenzphilosophie --- Ontology --- Phenomenology --- Philosophy, Modern --- Epiphanism --- Relationism --- Self --- Philosophy --- Jaspers, Karl --- ヤスパアス, カール --- 卡尔·雅斯贝斯

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Advances in technology have led to a global network of physicians in which information, data, and practices can be openly shared to help ensure high-quality care. End-of-Life Communication in the ICU is a manifestation of this belief that a multiplicity of perspectives can assist in the decision-making process. The book, with contributions from a diverse group of leaders in the international ICU community, examines how different cultures view death and explores how healthcare providers around the world communicate to patients and family members such sensitive issues as withholding or withdrawing life support and discussing options when the outcome is uncertain. Intensivists and other members of the intensive care unit will benefit greatly from this thoughtful dialogue about the emotional, ethical, and legal complexities of making end-of-life decisions.

Terminal care --- Critical care medicine --- Medical personnel and patient --- Communication in medicine --- Health communication --- Medical communication --- Medicine --- Patient and medical personnel --- Patients --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- End-of-life care --- Terminally ill --- Care of the sick --- Death --- Care and treatment --- Medical care --- Critical care medicine. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

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Burial --- Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Tombs --- Social aspects --- Ancient funeral rites and ceremonies --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Archaeology --- Public health --- Coffins --- Dead --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Grave digging --- Philosophy

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Death has popularly had the reputation of being the last of life's great mysteries, a subject of speculation, and as a foreboding event both inevitable, and feared. In Life Sentences, Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, and to order, manage, and transform it from an individualized and fatalistic event to a social phenomenon that allows intervention. She examines the process that has caused death to be understood in five quasi-biblical commandments: "thou shalt not die violently; thou shalt not die prematurely; thou shalt not kill thyself; and thou shalt not die an undignified death, so that thou shalt die an orderly death." Beginning with John Graunt's Natural and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality (1662) - considered the first book of statistics - and philosopher Thomas Hobbes's declaration that society must minimize the "greatest evil" of unsanctioned violent deaths, Bayatrizi traces the pivotal moments that have changed our understanding of death. While illuminating the history of our increasingly rationalized understanding of death, she also examines some of our most contradictory reactions to controversial topics such as suicide, euthanasia, suicide bombing, "collateral damage," and how our moral values have been shaped by an understanding of the proper place of a well-ordered death in modern society. Both historically rigorous and vigorously engaged in contemporary debates, Life Sentences will be of interest to anyone interested in how we deal with death before we die.

Death --- Life and death, Power over --- Death, Power over --- Power over life and death --- Ethics --- Free will and determinism --- Liberty --- Punishment --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Social aspects --- History. --- Philosophy --- Western countries. --- Occident --- Western countries --- Western nations --- Western world --- Developed countries