Download or read book The Culture of Death The Assault on Medical Ethics in America Large Print 16pt written by Wesley J. Smith and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his teenaged son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 106-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy's life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He demanded treatment and threatened legal action. The doctor finally relented. With treatment, Christopher's temperature subsided almost immediately. Soon afterwards he regained consciousness and today he is learning to walk again. This story is one of many Wesley Smith recounts in his groundbreaking new book, The Culture of Death. Smith believes that American medicine ''is changing from a system based on the sanctity of human life into a starkly utilitarian model in which the medically defenseless are seen as having not just a 'right' but a 'duty' to die.'' Going behind the current scenes of our health care system, he shows how doctors withdraw desired care based on Futile Care Theory rather than provide it as required by the Hippocratic Oath. And how ''bioethicists'' influence policy by considering questions such as whether organs may be harvested from the terminally ill and disabled. This is a passionate, yet coolly reasoned book about the current crisis in medical ethics by an author who has made ''the new thanatology'' his consuming interest.
Download or read book Living Your Dying written by Stanley Keleman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about dying, not about death. We are always dying a big, always giving things up, always having things taken away. Is there a person alive who isn't really curious about what dying is for them? Is there a person alive who wouldn't like to go to their dying full of excitement, without fear and without morbidity? This books tells you how." -- Front cover.
Download or read book A brief treatise on death written by Robert Fellowes and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philodemus on Death written by Philodemus and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On Death," by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus of Gadara, is among the most significant philosophical treatments of the theme surviving from the Greco-Roman world. The author was an influential figure in first-century B.C.E. Roman society, associated with poets such as Virgil and politicians such as the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. The surviving copies of his treatises were carbonized following the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 C.E. This edition contains the Greek text, newly reconstituted with the help of the infrared imaging technology that has revolutionized the study of Philodemus s works in the twenty-first century, and completely translated into English for the first time. An extensive introduction provides background on Philodemus and his writings, accompanying notes enrich the text, and forty-four pages of photographs illustrate the papyrus manuscript from which the translation is drawn.
Download or read book Sickness Unto Death written by Soren Kierkegaard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [consists in the fact] that the relation relates itself to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity; in short, it is a synthesis.
Download or read book The Death of Death in the Death of Christ written by John Owen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen was a renowned theologian in his day and this work is a piece of theological brilliance in the reformed and protestant tradition. The death of Christ had a wide range of implications on the fate of humanity and the cause of redemption that Christ came to give to us all. This work goes over all the arguments that have been set up against the reality of Christ's death and Owen brilliantly rebukes these arguments and settles it all.
Download or read book With the End in Mind written by Kathryn Mannix and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying. Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar, peaceful, and gentle -- if sorrowful -- transition, death has come to be something from which we shield our eyes, as we prefer to fight desperately against it rather than accept its inevitability. Dr. Kathryn Mannix has studied and practiced palliative care for thirty years. In With the End in Mind , she shares beautifully crafted stories from a lifetime of caring for the dying, and makes a compelling case for the therapeutic power of approaching death not with trepidation, but with openness, clarity, and understanding. Weaving the details of her own experiences as a caregiver through stories of her patients, their families, and their distinctive lives, Dr. Mannix reacquaints us with the universal, but deeply personal, process of dying. With insightful meditations on life, death, and the space between them, With the End in Mind describes the possibility of meeting death gently, with forethought and preparation, and shows the unexpected beauty, dignity, and profound humanity of life coming to an end.
Download or read book A Brief Treatise on Death Philosophically Morally and Practically Considered written by Robert Fellowes and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A treatise of death written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1660 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treatise on Death written by Myles Coverdale and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book was written by one of the most important but least-acknowledged English Reformers, Myles Coverdale. It deals with a topic of daily significance and eternal importance: what death is, and how a Christian ought to prepare for death, conduct himself in the face of death, speak to the sick and dying, and relieve and comfort people whose loved ones are departed out of this world. Myles Coverdale translated the Treatise on Death from the German work of Otho Wermullerus circa 1550. This facsimile edition is taken from a modern-spelling reprint by the Parker Society in 1846, with helpful notes by the Society editor George Pearson. The Treatise on Death manifests the poetic expression of deep truths, moving spirit, faithful exaltation of Christ, and practical, godly simplicity that characterize the works of Coverdale and Wermullerus. It begins with an insightful discussion about the four kinds of death and life that the Scriptures speak of, whether of soul or body and whether temporal or eternal. Other lessons include the importance of amending our life before we die, and the reminder that in death a Christian is not alone, but many eyes look upon him: the eyes of God the Father, his Son Jesus Christ, the angels, and all Christians. A bonus feature is a letter from Lady Jane Grey, which Coverdale appended to the end of his book. Lady Jane was a young woman, a descendant of Henry VII, whom King Edward VI nominated to be his successor to the Crown. After Edward's death Jane was proclaimed queen, but after only nine days the Privy Council changed course and proclaimed Mary Tudor in her place. Mary charged Jane with high treason, and at the mere age of 17 Jane was beheaded. But before her death, she wrote a note in the back of her Greek New Testament to her sister Katherine. This note evidenced a saintly meekness, trust in God, and deep faith coupled with a noble character. Coverdale judged it worthy to be included in his book, and it is worthy.
Download or read book A Treatise on the Physical Cause of the Death of Christ written by William Stroud and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Industrial Complex written by CANDICE. WUEHLE and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Art. Photography. Candice Wuehle's DEATH INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX is a meditation on the cultural obsession with the bodies of dead women and an occult invocation of the artist Francesca Woodman. Like Woodman's photographs with their long exposures and blurred lenses, this book is haunted and haunting, hazey yet devastatingly precise. These are poems as possessions, gothic ekphrases, dialogues with the dead, biography and anti-biography, a stunning act of "cryptobeauty."
Download or read book A treatise on the physical cause of the death of Christ and its relation to the principles and practice of Christianity written by William STROUD (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying written by Sogyal Rinpoche and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25th Anniversary Edition Over 3 Million Copies Sold 'I couldn't give this book a higher recommendation' BILLY CONNOLLY Written by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Sogyal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It includes not only a lucid, inspiring and complete introduction to the practice of meditation, but also advice on how to care for the dying with love and compassion, and how to bring them help of a spiritual kind. But there is much more besides in this classic work, which was written to inspire all who read it to begin the journey to enlightenment and so become 'servants of peace'.
Download or read book The Tibetan Book of the Dead written by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theology of Death written by Douglas Davies and published by T&T Clark. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of the book is grounded in biblical issues and in historical and philosophical theology. It seeks to establish several schemes of death theology related, for example, to early Christianity's Jewish cultural milieu, to belief in Christ's resurrection and to Christology, to issues of millennial belief and to an emergent liturgical practice. The rise of notions of the soul in relation to medieval thought and practice and the place of death in reformation theology are both covered, as is the role of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Finally the rise of biblical theology is considered, especially in the twentieth century. The second part of the book takes up several contemporary models of the theology of death. The first pursues a traditional acceptance of an other-worldly afterlife, the second explores worldly analysis of eternal life as a quality of contemporary existence devoid of any future state. The third develops the worldly model and considers a wider sense of self as a part of an ecological view of the world as a divine creation and explores the meaning of birth-life and death amidst a divine environment. The Theology of Death aims to offer some sharply defined schemes to focus thought in a Christian environment in which death, hell and heaven have almost lost their place. The topic of hope is a key element and the book explores the birth and fostering of hope within Christian traditions.
Download or read book The Book of the Craft of Dying and Other Early English Tracts Concerning Death written by Frances Margaret Mary Comper and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
