| Description |
xiii, 270 pages ; 23 cm |
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Mythological aspects of death and dying / Stanley Krippner -- African perspectives on death and dying / Kofi Asare Opoku -- Death and the afterlife in African culture / Kwasi Wiredu -- Islamic perspectives on death and dying / Ahmad Anisuzzaman Muwahidi -- The concept of death and the afterlife in Islam / Jan Knappert -- The good death : approaches to death, dying, and bereavement among British Hindus / Shirley Firth -- The Hindu concept of death / Jamuna Prashad -- Upanishadic eschatology : the other side of death / William A. Borman -- Conquering death / Daya Shanker -- Rebirth and afterlife in Buddhism / Carl B. Becker -- Chinese perspectives on death and dying / Wei Wei C. Huang -- Death in the Maya cosmos / Harold B. Haley and Francis X. Grollig -- The ethics of certain death : suicide, execution, and euthansia / Charles Davies -- Do we have a right to die? / John Beloff -- |
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Voluntary active euthanasia : an individual's right to determine the time and manner of death / Marvin E. Newman -- Jungian psychology and the nature of death / Alfred Ribi -- Problems raised by the concept of the survival of personality after death / Gertrude R. Schmeidler -- Does religion need immortality ? / Paul Badham -- The Ars Moriendi and breaking the conspiracy of silence / Michael Perry -- A postmodern mythology of death / Michael Grosso -- People and the paranormal / David Cockburn -- The near-death experience : cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary dimensions / David Lorimer |
| Analysis |
Death Cross-cultural studies |
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Thanatology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Bereavement.
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Death -- Religious aspects.
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Death.
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Euthanasia.
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Death -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Thanatology.
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Attitude to Death -- ethnology.
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Attitude to Death.
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Bereavement.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Death -- psychology
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Death.
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Religion.
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| Author |
Berger, Arthur S., 1920-
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| LC no. |
88063424 |
| ISBN |
0914783262 (hardbound) |
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0914783270 (softbound) |
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