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"The long tradition of pessimism in philosophy and poetry notoriously laments suffering caused by vulnerabilities of the human body. The most familiar and contemporary version is antinatalism, the view that it is wrong to bring sentient life into existence because birth inevitably produces suffering. Technotopianism, which stems from a similarly negative view of embodied limitations, claims that we should escape sickness and death through radical human-enhancement technologies. In Embodiment and the Meaning of Life Jeff Noonan presents pessimism and technotopianism as two sides of the same coin, as both begin from the premise that the limitations of embodied life are inherently negative. He argues that rather than rendering life pointless, the tragic failures that mark life are fundamental to the good of human existence. The necessary limitations of embodied being are challenges for each person to live well, not only for their own sake, but for the sake of the future of the human project. Meaning is not a given, Noonan suggests, but rather the product of labour upon ourselves, others, and the world. Meaningful labour is threatened equally by unjust social systems and runaway technological development that aims to replace human action, rather than liberate it. Calling on us to draw conceptual connections between finitude, embodiment, and the meaning of life, this book shows that seeking the common good is our most viable and materially realistic source of optimism about the future."--

Life. --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Suffering. --- Death. --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Affliction --- Masochism --- Pain --- Philosophy --- Semantics (Philosophy)

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"Drawing on her family's own experiences and those of other parents facing the death of a child from illness or a life-limiting condition, Sacha Langton-Gilks explains the challenges, planning, and conversations that can be expected during this traumatic period. Practical advice such as how to work with the healthcare professionals, drawing up an Advance Care Plan, and how to move care into the home sit alongside tender observations of how such things worked in her own family's story. The book also includes a template person-centred planning document, developed by experts in the field. Empowering and reassuring, this book will help families plan and ensure the best possible end-of-life care for a child or young person."--

Children and death. --- Terminal care. --- End-of-life care --- Terminally ill --- Care of the sick --- Critical care medicine --- Death --- Death and children --- Care and treatment --- Medical care

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A transição da mortalidade não se desenvolveu de forma homogénea no espaço e no tempo - a heterogeneidade espacial, a diferença distrital, observou-se no calendário, na duração e na intensidade do processo. As causas da desigual dinâmica da mortalidade distrital foram variadas. Por um lado, muito provavelmente, a existência de desequilíbrios estruturais: desenvolvimento socioeconómico desigual, peculiaridades culturais ou de estilo de vida, factores ambientais, etc. Por outro lado, a não acessibilidade às novas formas de luta contra as causas de morte dominantes, foram também obstáculos presentes. Consequentemente, uns distritos aceleraram a transicão da mortalidade enquanto outros se constituíram como autênticos freios à mesma, em determinadas épocas do século XX. Mas independentemente do declínio da intensidade e das mutações do calendário da morte, a transição da mortalidade foi definida por uma perceptível reestruturação das principais causas de morte que se desenvolveu segundo uma tendência que é definida como de "Transição Epidemiológica"...

Mortality --- Death --- History --- Causes --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Mortality, Law of --- Demography --- Death (Biology) --- Philosophy --- mortalidade --- causas de morte --- variação espacial --- mortalidade diferencial --- transição demográfica

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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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How did people of the past prepare for death, and how were their preparations affected by religious beliefs or social and economic responsibilities? 'Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe' analyses the various ways in which people made preparations for death in medieval and early modern Northern Europe, adapting religious teachings to local circumstances. The articles span the period from the Middle Ages to Early Modernity allowing an analysis over centuries of religious change that are too often artificially separated in historical study

Death --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Europe, Northern --- Europe septentrionale --- Religion. --- Religion --- Dying --- End of life --- Philosophy --- Northern Europe --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Europe: North --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- History --- Religious aspects&delete&