Description
Book SynopsisAll of us who work in the field of death and dying are, beyond our projects and our practices, working on our awareness of our own mortality. This richly stimulating collection of original articles challenges the reader to develop a disciplined and focused awareness of his/her own mortality, and to grapple with the implications. Awareness of Mortality contributes to the basic and passionate intellectual quest for meaning in thanatology. It provokes the reader with a wide range of ideas and thinking styles to deepen the questioning process within his/her own self. Awareness of Mortality explores issues in philosophy, ethics, developmental psychology, psychoanalytic psychology, idealistic humanism, sociology, spiritual traditions, and other humanities that thanatology overlaps. Awareness of Mortality is an introduction to a broad-based philosophical thanatology.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
PART I: POSING QUESTIONS
What Should We Expect From Philosophy? Jeanne Quint Benoliel Dying and Death Late in the Twentieth Century David J. Roy
PART II: PERSPECTIVES IN PHILOSOPHICAL THANATOLOGY
Immortality John D. Morgan The Idea of "The Glorious Dead": The Conversion of a Uniquely Personal Experience Bill Warren
Suffering and Death: External Questions in a New Context Kjell Kallenberg
Meaning and the Awareness of Death Galen K. Pletcher
Blinkings: A Thanatocentric Theory of Consciousness Jeffrey Kauffman
Personal Identity and Death Concern—Philosophical and Developmental Perspectives Adrian Tomer
PART III: HUMANISTIC REFLECTIONS ON MORTALITY AWARENESS
The Awareness of Mortality in Midlife: Implications for Later Life Kenneth J. Doka Intimations of Mortality from Recollections of Early Childhood: Death Awareness, Knowledge, and the Unconscious Victor L. Schermer
Children, Death, and Fairy Tales Elizabeth P. Lamers
Saying Good-Bye to Tomorrow Inge Corless
Horrendous Death: Linking Thanatology and Public Health Dan Leviton Death and Beyond: A Hindu's Perspective Aruna Mathur
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