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This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology, existentialism and analytic philosophy. He also examines the ancient philosophies that have shaped our current ideas about death. His analysis focuses on three fundamental problems: (1) the definition of human death, (2) the knowledge of mortality and of human death as such, and (3) the question of whether death is 'nothing' to us or, on the contrary, whether it can be regarded as an absolute or relative evil. Drawing on scholarship published in four languages and from three distinct currents of thought, this volume represents a comprehensive and systematic study of the philosophy of death, one that provides a provocative basis for discussions of the bioethics of human mortality.

Philosophical anthropology --- Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- levenseinde (einde van het leven, levenseindebeslissing) --- fin de vie (décision de fin de vie) --- Death. --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy --- Mortality. --- Mortality, Law of --- Demography --- Death (Biology) --- Arts and Humanities

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Handbook for Mortals is warmly addressed to all those who wish to approach the final years of life with greater awareness of what to expect and greater confidence about how to make the end of their lives a time of growth, comfort, and meaningful reflection. Written by Dr. Joanne Lynn and a team of experts, this book provides equal measures of practical information and wise counsel, from down-to-earth advice on how to talk to your doctor to inspiring quotes from such writers as Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, Jane Kenyon, and others.

Catastrophic illness --- Terminally ill --- Death --- Terminal care --- End-of-life care --- Care of the sick --- Critical care medicine --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Thanatology --- Dying persons --- Fatally ill --- Critically ill --- Catastrophic diseases --- Critical illness --- Diseases --- Care and treatment --- Medical care --- Philosophy

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The Book of Donors for Strasbourg cathedral is an extraordinary medieval document dating from ca. 1320-1520, with 6,954 entries from artisan, merchant and aristocratic classes. This study is the first to comprehensively analyse the unpublished Book of Donors manuscript and show the types and patterns of gifts made to the cathedral. It also compares these gift entries with those in earlier obituary records kept by the cathedral canons, as well as other medieval obituary notices kept by parish churches and convents in Strasbourg. Analysis of the Book of Donors notes the increase of personal deta

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Funérailles --- Mort --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Catholic Church --- Rites et cérémonies --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Eglise catholique --- Strasbourg (France) --- Church history. --- Social life and customs --- Histoire religieuse --- Moeurs et coutumes --- History --- Social life and customs. --- Funérailles --- Rites et cérémonies --- Catholic Church. --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Philosophy --- Strateburgum (France) --- Stratisburgium (France) --- Istrāsbūrg (France) --- Strassburg (Germany) --- Strasbourg (Free imperial city) --- Strossburi (France) --- Strossburig (France)

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This book presents a significant repudiation of the traditional eschatological doctrines, both Catholic and Protestant, based on the key idea that human death, as a dying into the death of Christ, is to be construed positively as a salvific event that confers the plenitude of life to the human. Offering helpful critiques of selected contemporary theologians, Novello explores how the proposed theology of death has liturgical and pastoral implications for Christian faith and praxis.

Christian dogmatics --- Death --- 232.32 --- 236.1 --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- 236.1 Dood. Scheiding van lichaam en ziel --- Dood. Scheiding van lichaam en ziel --- 232.32 Priesterschap, offer van Jezus Christus. Theologie van het kruis --- Priesterschap, offer van Jezus Christus. Theologie van het kruis --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- Philosophy --- Jesus Christ --- Christ --- Cristo --- Jezus Chrystus --- Jesus Cristo --- Jesus, --- Christ, Jesus --- Yeh-su --- Masīḥ --- Khristos --- Gesù --- Christo --- Yeshua --- Chrystus --- Gesú Cristo --- Ježíš --- Isa, --- Nabi Isa --- Isa Al-Masih --- Al-Masih, Isa --- Masih, Isa Al --- -Jesus, --- Jesucristo --- Yesu --- Yeh-su Chi-tu --- Iēsous --- Iēsous Christos --- Iēsous, --- Kʻristos --- Hisus Kʻristos --- Christos --- Jesuo --- Yeshuʻa ben Yosef --- Yeshua ben Yoseph --- Iisus --- Iisus Khristos --- Jeschua ben Joseph --- Ieso Kriʻste --- Yesus --- Kristus --- ישו --- ישו הנוצרי --- ישו הנצרי --- ישוע --- ישוע בן יוסף --- المسيح --- مسيح --- يسوع المسيح --- 耶稣 --- 耶稣基督 --- 예수그리스도 --- Jíizis --- Yéshoua --- Iėsu̇s --- Khrist Iėsu̇s --- ‏عيسىٰ‏ --- Crucifixion. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity.

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Are you alive? What makes you so sure? Most people believe this question has a clear answer-that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. But they are dead wrong. In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Price Foley examines the many, and surprisingly ambiguous, legal definitions of what counts as human life and death.Foley reveals that "not being dead" is not necessarily the same as being alive, in the eyes of the law. People, pre-viable fetuses, and post-viable fetuses have different sets of legal rights, which explains the law's seemingly inconsistent approach to stem cell research, in vitro fertilization, frozen embryos, in utero embryos, contraception, abortion, homicide, and wrongful death.In a detailed analysis that is sure to be controversial, Foley shows how the need for more organ transplants and the need to conserve health care resources are exerting steady pressure to expand the legal definition of death. As a result, death is being declared faster than ever before. The ";right to die,"; Foley worries, may be morphing slowly into an obligation to die.Foley's balanced, accessible chapters explore the most contentious legal issues of our time-including cryogenics, feticide, abortion, physician-assisted suicide, brain death, vegetative and minimally conscious states, informed consent, and advance directives-across constitutional, contract, tort, property, and criminal law. Ultimately, she suggests, the inconsistencies and ambiguities in U.S. laws governing life and death may be culturally, and perhaps even psychologically, necessary for an enormous and diverse country like ours.

LAW --- Science & Technology --- Death --- Life and death, Power over --- Right to life --- Right to die --- Euthanasia --- Records as Topic --- Ethics, Clinical --- Brain Diseases --- Pathologic Processes --- Coma --- Life --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Organization and Administration --- Data Collection --- Ethics, Professional --- Philosophy --- Unconsciousness --- Diseases --- Ethics --- Nervous System Diseases --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Consciousness Disorders --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Information Science --- Health Services Administration --- Humanities --- Neurobehavioral Manifestations --- Health Care --- Investigative Techniques --- Quality of Health Care --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Public Health --- Neurologic Manifestations --- Environment and Public Health --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Brain Death --- Death Certificates --- Value of Life --- Ethics, Medical --- Law - U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Medical & Hospital Legislation - U.S. --- Proof and certification --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Decision making --- Law and legislation --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Decision making. --- Assisted death (Euthanasia) --- Assisted dying (Euthanasia) --- Death, Assisted (Euthanasia) --- Death, Mercy --- Dying, Assisted (Euthanasia) --- Killing, Mercy --- Mercy death --- Mercy killing --- Respect for life --- Right of life --- Right to life (International law) --- Death, Power over --- Power over life and death --- Dying --- End of life --- Homicide --- Medical ethics --- Assisted suicide --- Human rights --- Free will and determinism --- Liberty --- Punishment --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology