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The evolution of death
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ISBN: 079148081X 1429413573 9781429413572 079146945X 0791469468 9780791469453 9780791469460 9780791480816 Year: 2006 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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In The Evolution of Death, the follow-up to Becoming Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy, also published by SUNY Press, Stanley Shostak argues that death, like life, can evolve. Observing that literature, philosophy, religion, genetics, physics, and gerontology still struggle to explain why we die, Shostak explores the mystery of death from a biological perspective.Death, Shostak claims, is not the end of a linear journey, static and indifferent to change. Instead, he suggests, the current efforts to live longer have profoundly affected our ecological niche, and we are evolving into a long-lived species. Pointing to the artificial means currently used to prolong life, he argues that as we become increasingly juvenilized in our adult life, death will become significantly and evolutionarily delayed. As bodies evolve, the embryos of succeeding generations may be accumulating the stem cells that preserve and restore, providing the resources necessary to live longer and longer. If trends like this continue, Shostak contends, future human beings may join the ranks of other animals with indefinite life spans.

Death : beyond whole-brain criteria
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ISBN: 1556080530 9401077207 940092707X Year: 1988 Volume: 31 Publisher: Dordrecht Boston London Kluwer


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Terminal care : friendship contracts with dying cancer patients
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ISBN: 087630224X Year: 1980 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Brunner and Mazel


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Entwicklung von Verhaltensmerkmalen für den Umgang mit Sterbenden auf der Grundlage partizipierender Feldforschung in Einrichtungen der Altenhilfe.
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ISBN: 3531026984 Year: 1977 Publisher: Opladen Westdeutscher Verl.


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Death, dissection and the destitute.
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ISBN: 0710209193 Year: 1987 Publisher: London Routledge and Kegan Paul


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The end of animal life : a start for ethical debate : ethical and societal considerations on killing animals
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ISBN: 9086868088 9086862608 9789086862603 Year: 2016 Publisher: Wageningen Wageningen Academic Publishers

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"Killing animals is common practice, yet it is not morally neutral. The end of animal life is related to many societal and ethical questions and concerns. Questions such as how long should we continue to treat an animal before putting it down? But also the question whether it could be legitimate to kill individual animals for the welfare of the herd or of future generations. The ongoing public and academic discussions on these, and on other well-known questions like those related to the killing of animals for food or for scientific purposes, show that there is no one standard evaluation of animal life. This book is an edited volume that enables the reader to get a grip on that plurality of views with regard to animals. It helps to deal with the many questions related to the end of animal life. The chapters show how the plurality of views on killing animals is related to moral presuppositions by providing a clear overview of the ethical views on end-of-life decisions. Furthermore, the book contains a number of applied studies of the ethical questions related to killing animals in various practices, including small animal practice, wildlife management, fishing and fish farming, animal experimentation and livestock farming. These chapters can help veterinarians, scientists, students, policy makers and many other professionals working with animals to easily get a good overview of the issues at stake, and may contribute to responsible decision-making with regard to the end of animal life."--Page 4 of cover.


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Besef van de naderende dood.
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ISBN: 9014022492 9789014022499 Year: 1973 Publisher: Alphen aan den Rijn Samsom

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