How are We to Confront Death?

How are We to Confront Death?
Author: Françoise Dastur
Publisher: Perspectives in Continental Ph
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2012
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780823242405

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This books offers a philosophical exploration and assessment of the various ways in which human societies have confronted the question of death and mortality. In a very accessible style, the author considers religion's attempt to make sense of death, science's attempt to evade death, and philosophy's attempt to embrace death as a fundamental and defining moment of what it means to be human.

Confronting the Death Penalty

Confronting the Death Penalty
Author: Robin Conley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199334161

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"Confronting the Death Penalty probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, Robin Conley explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors', attorneys', and judges' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials."--Provided by publisher.

A Chosen Death

A Chosen Death
Author: Lonny Shavelson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1995
Genre: Assisted suicide
ISBN: 0684801000

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Featuring moving accounts of terminally ill people who have faced the choice of ending their own lives, this book adds a profound human dimension to the debate over assisted suicide

Confronting Death in the School Family

Confronting Death in the School Family
Author: Dave Opalewski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781931636360

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The death of a student or staff member can devastate a school and its surrounding community. Confronting Death in the School Family will provide guidelines and tools for adding a tragedy component to your Crisis Response Team.

Confronting Death

Confronting Death
Author: Alfred G. Killilea
Publisher:
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1475969775

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Death is a hard topic to talk about, but exploring it openly can lead to a new understanding about how to live. In this series of eighteen essays, college students examine death in new ways. Their essays provide remarkable ideas about how death can transform people and societies. Alfred G. Killilea, a professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island, teams up with former student Dylan D. Lynch and various contributors to share insights about a multitude of issues tied to death, including terrorists, child soldiers, Nazism, fascism, suicide, capital punishment and the Black Death. Other essays explore death themes in classic and contemporary literature, such as in Dante, Peter Pan, Kurt Vonnegut, and Christopher Hitchens. Still others explore death in modern context, considering the work of Jane Goodall, the threat of death on Mount Everest, the origins of the "Grim Reaper," and how violent street gangs deal with death. At a time when American politics suffers from deep ideological divisions that could make our nation ungovernable, our mutual mortality may be the most potent force for unifying us and helping us to find common ground.

Death by China

Death by China
Author: Peter Navarro
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011-05-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 013236705X

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The world's most populous nation and soon-to-be largest economy is rapidly turning into the planet's most efficient assassin. Unscrupulous Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding world markets with lethal products. China's perverse form of capitalism combines illegal mercantilist and protectionist weapons to pick off American industries, job by job. China's emboldened military is racing towards head-on confrontation with the U.S. Meanwhile, America's executives, politicians, and even academics remain silent about the looming threat. Now, best-selling author and noted economist Peter Navarro meticulously exposes every form of "Death by China," drawing on the latest trends and events to show a relationship spiraling out of control. Death by China reveals how thousands of Chinese cyber dissidents are being imprisoned in "Google Gulags"; how Chinese hackers are escalating coordinated cyberattacks on U.S. defense and America's key businesses; how China's undervalued currency is damaging the U.S., Europe, and the global recovery; why American companies are discovering that the risks of operating in China are even worse than they imagined; how China is promoting nuclear proliferation in its pursuit of oil; and how the media distorts the China story--including a "Hall of Shame" of America's worst China apologists. This book doesn't just catalogue China's abuses: It presents a call to action and a survival guide for a critical juncture in America's history--and the world's. Publisher's note - in this book various quotes and viewpoints are attributed to a 'Ron Vara'. Ron Vara is not an actual person, but rather an alias created by Peter Navarro in order to present his views and opinions.

Facing Death

Facing Death
Author: Sandra L. Bertman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1991
Genre: Death
ISBN: 9781560322238

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This work draws upon material from the visual arts, poetry, fiction, drama, and pop-culture to help lead the reader to a heightened awareness of the universal nature of the issues that face the dying and those who care for them. The author argues.

Confronting the "Good Death"

Confronting the
Author: Michael S. Bryant
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2017-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1607327082

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Years before Hitler unleashed the “Final Solution” to annihilate European Jews, he began a lesser-known campaign to eradicate the mentally ill, which facilitated the gassing and lethal injection of as many as 270,000 people and set a precedent for the mass murder of civilians. In Confronting the “Good Death” Michael Bryant analyzes the U.S. government and West German judiciary’s attempt to punish the euthanasia killers after the war. The first author to address the impact of geopolitics on the courts’ representation of Nazi euthanasia, Bryant argues that international power relationships wreaked havoc on the prosecutions. Drawing on primary sources, this provocative investigation of the Nazi campaign against the mentally ill and the postwar quest for justice will interest general readers and provide critical information for scholars of Holocaust studies, legal history, and human rights. Support for this publication was generously provided by the Eugene M. Kayden Fund at the University of Colorado.

Confronting Death

Confronting Death
Author: Richard W. Momeyer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1988-12-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780253314031

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"Well organized, well argued, and well written . . . " —Choice "It is a lively document, with vigorous arguments leading to opinions that are controversial but strongly held." —Joseph M. Foley, Medical Humanities Review " . . . Momeyer's book has much to recommend it . . . The book would surely be a suitable focus for an undergraduate course in dealing with the philosophical issues involving death and our attitudes towards it." —David J. Mayo, Teaching Philosophy "This book is valuable and important in bringing conceptual clarification to questions about dealing with death that are so often neglected or mishandled by social scientists and the counseling industry." —Ethics An examination of the moral and philosophical issues at work in an individual's confrontation of death, not as a matter of psychological necessity or social conditioning, but as a function of reflection and the search for self-knowledge.

Facing Death in Cambodia

Facing Death in Cambodia
Author: Peter H. Maguire
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231120524

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This book is the story of Peter Maguire's effort to learn how Cambodia's "culture of impunity" developed, why it persists, and the failures of the "international community" to confront the Cambodian genocide. Written from a personal and historical perspective, Facing Death in Cambodia recounts Maguire's growing anguish over the gap between theories of universal justice and political realities. Maguire documents the atrocities and the aftermath through personal interviews with victims and perpetrators, discussions with international officials, journalistic accounts, and government sources.