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Oxygen
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Andrew Miller |
"It is the summer of 1997. In England, Alec Valentine is on his way home to care for his ailing mother, Alice, a task that only reinforces his deep sense of inadequacy. In San Francisco, his older br… |
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The art of death
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Edwidge Danticat |
Danticat moves outward from the shock of her mother's cancer diagnosis and sifts through her own writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly through works of literature which ci… |
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The work of the dead
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Thomas Walter Laqueur |
"The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work o… |
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Good-bye, Vivi!
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Antonie Schneider |
When Granny's beloved canary Vivi dies, the family comes to accept it, as well as the idea that some day they will lose Granny as well. |
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Qu'est-ce que mourir?
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Danièle Hervieu-Léger,Emmanuel Hirsch,Jean-Claude Ameisen |
Aborde les aspects biologiques, médicaux, éthiques, religieux, philosophiques et psychanalytiques de la mort. Traite des questions telles que le "suicide cellulaire", la définition médicale de la mor… |
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Reflections on Death, Dying, and Bereavement
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William A. Smith |
"The methodology of Reflections on Death, Dying and Bereavement is mainly philosophical. It is intended to complement scriptural and theological studies. Chapters 1 and 2 consider foundational metaph… |
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