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Author: Leslie P. Francis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351946064
Size: 42.65 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2019-01-15
Category: Law
Language: en
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Download PDF Death Dying And The Ending Of Life Volumes I And Ii eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The two volumes of Death, Dying, and the Ending of Life present the core of recent philosophical work on end-of-life issues. Volume I examines issues in death and consent: the nature of death, brain death and the uses of the dead and decision-making at the end of life, including the use of advance directives and decision-making about the continuation, discontinuation, or futility of treatment for competent and incompetent patients and children. Volume II, on justice and hastening death, examines whether there is a difference between killing and letting die, issues about physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and questions about distributive justice and decisions about life and death.

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Book Detail:
Author: Margaret Pabst Battin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190286245
Size: 44.80 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2005-05-05
Category: Medical
Language: en
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Download PDF Ending Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands to furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used for causing death, and the development of "NuTech" methods of assistance in dying. Battin's new collection covers a remarkably wide range of end-of-life topics, including suicide prevention, AIDS, suicide bombing, serpent-handling and other religious practices that pose a risk of death, genetic prognostication, suicide in old age, global justice and the "duty to die," and suicide, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia, in both American and international contexts. As with the earlier volume, these new essays are theoretically adroit but draw richly from historical sources, fictional techniques, and ample factual material.

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Book Detail:
Author: Michael Cholbi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319220500
Size: 60.98 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2015-08-20
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF New Directions In The Ethics Of Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book provides novel perspectives on the ethical justifiability of assisted dying. Seeking to go beyond traditional debates on topics such as the value of human life and questions surrounding intention and causation, this volume promises to shift the terrain of the ethical debates about assisted dying. It reconsiders the role of patient autonomy and paternalistic reasons as well as the part proposed for medical professionals and clinical ethics consultation in connection with assisted dying, relates the debate on assisted dying to questions about organ-donation and developments in medical technology, and demonstrates the significance of experimental philosophy in assessing questions of assisted dying. This book is ideal for advanced courses in bioethics and health care ethics.

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Book Detail:
Author: Margaret P. Battin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Size: 55.37 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2007
Category: Advance directives (Medical care)
Language: en
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Download PDF Death Dying And The Ending Of Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Addressing key issues arising from the nature of death, 'Death, Dying and the Ending of Life' examines important topics relating to bioethics, philosophy and literature.

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Book Detail:
Author: John Langone
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN:
Size: 14.17 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1972
Category: Death
Language: en
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Download PDF Death Is A Noun eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Discusses the biological meaning of death, attitudes of the dying, survivors, and society toward it, and such related topics as euthanasia, abortion, murder, suicide, and immortality.

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert M. Veatch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300043648
Size: 44.33 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 1989
Category: Medical
Language: en
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Download PDF Death Dying And The Biological Revolution eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Adam Silvera
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063240823
Size: 11.22 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2022-10-04
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The First To Die At The End eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this prequel to the bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls. #1 New York Times bestseller! It’s the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he’s going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what’s coming. Valentino Prince is restarting his life in New York. He has a long and promising future ahead and he only registered for Death-Cast after his twin sister nearly died in a car accident. Orion and Valentino cross paths in Times Square and immediately feel a deep connection. But when the first round of End Day calls goes out, their lives are changed forever—one of them receives a call, and the other doesn’t. Though neither boy is certain how the day will end, they know they want to spend it together…even if that means their goodbye will be heartbreaking. Told with acclaimed author Adam Silvera’s signature bittersweet touch, this story celebrates the lasting impact that people have on each other and proves that life is always worth living to the fullest. * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year *

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Book Detail:
Author: Stephen W. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005388
Size: 55.55 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2012-02-23
Category: Law
Language: en
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Download PDF End Of Life Decisions In Medical Care eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Stephen W. Smith explores the legal and ethical issues involved in end-of-life decision making.

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Book Detail:
Author: Adam Silvera
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062457810
Size: 43.33 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2017-09-05
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF They Both Die At The End eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. #1 New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Bustle Best YA Novel * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book * A Book Riot Best Queer Book * A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year * A BookPage Best YA Book of the Year On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day. In the tradition of Before I Fall and If I Stay, They Both Die at the End is a tour de force from acclaimed author Adam Silvera, whose debut, More Happy Than Not, the New York Times called “profound.” Plus don't miss The First to Die at the End: #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera returns to the universe of international phenomenon They Both Die at the End in this prequel. New star-crossed lovers are put to the test on the first day of Death-Cast’s fateful calls.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jason R. Raibley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351888706
Size: 52.46 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2017-09-29
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF The Good The Right Life And Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Fred Feldman, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is widely recognized for his subtle defense of hedonistic consequentialism and for his plain-spoken and exact philosophical style. This book collects new and original articles from an international team of scholars to celebrate his philosophical contributions. The three main topics of the book - moral goodness, moral rightness and the ethical and metaphysical puzzles posed by death - are topics that have occupied Professor Feldman throughout his philosophical career. Each contribution advances the state of the art in analytical ethics and metaphysics through critical analysis of previous work and the formulation of new positions. As a collection, these essays represent a sustained reflection on the merits and limitations of a whole, integrated research program in moral philosophy: hedonistic consequentialism.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sharon Scholl
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838750476
Size: 45.64 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 1984
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF Death And The Humanities eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Examines the variety of treatments of the theme of death in the works of painters, sculptors, novelists, poets, and composers.

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Book Detail:
Author: Prof. Katta Narasimha Reddy
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN:
Size: 33.55 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2023-01-31
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Kalyana Mitra Volume 8 eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Volume VIII: Economy, Trade and Commerce: The Volume contains 31 articles contributed by scholars on Trade, Commerce and Economy. The articles include, Process of Urbanization, Buddhism and trade routes, Marine trade, epigraphical references to Trade, mercantile activities, commercial contacts with South Asian Countries, Trade and craft guilds, trade on Indian Ocean, role of ports in promoting trade and commerce, and Migrant trading Communities.The volume serves as a valuable source book for students, research scholars and teachers of trade, commerce and economy in historical context. This volume also highlights the love and affection of Prof. P. Chenna Reddy enjoys in the intellectual world. The felicitation Volume is brought out in a series of 12 independent books covering a total of 460 articles. Every volume contains two sections. The first section contains the biographical sketch of Prof. P. Chenna Reddy, his achievements and contribution to archaeology, history and Society. The second section of each volume is subject specific, E.g., Volume-I on Archaeology, Volume II on Early and Medieval Indian History, Volume III on Modern Indian History, Volume IV on Epigraphy and Numismatics, Volume V on Art, Volume VI on Architecture, Volume VII on Religion and Philosophy, Volume VIII on Economy, Trade and Commerce, Volume IX on Literature, Volume X Tribalore and Folklore, Volume XI Contemporary India and Diaspora, Volume XII, Tourism .and contains as many as 460 articles.

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Book Detail:
Author: Allan Tasman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118845471
Size: 44.80 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2015-03-30
Category: Medical
Language: en
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Download PDF Psychiatry 2 Volume Set eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Now in a new Fourth Edition, Psychiatry remains the leading reference on all aspects of the current practice and latest developments in psychiatry. From an international team of recognised expert editors and contributors, Psychiatry provides a truly comprehensive overview of the entire field of psychiatry in 132 chapters across two volumes. It includes two new sections, on psychosomatic medicine and collaborative care, and on emergency psychiatry, and compares Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD10) classifications for every psychiatric disorder. Psychiatry, Fourth Edition is an essential reference for psychiatrists in clinical practice and clinical research, residents in training, and for all those involved in the treatment psychiatric disorders. Includes a a companion website at www.tasmanpsychiatry.com featuring PDFs of each chapter and downloadable images

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Book Detail:
Author: David Hendin
Publisher: R.S. Means Company
ISBN:
Size: 54.77 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1973
Category: Death
Language: en
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Download PDF Death As A Fact Of Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this examination of dying and death a medical journalist discusses the moral and legal aspects of such advances as transplants and freezing.

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Book Detail:
Author: Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520268938
Size: 50.52 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2015-01-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Selected Works Of D T Suzuki Volume Ii eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki is considered a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many in the West encountered Buddhism for the very first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy havecontributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. As an early and influential representative of Zen Buddhism outside of Japan, Suzuki shaped the global conversation about the nature of religious practice for much of the twentieth century. This is the first of a multivolume series gathering the full range of Suzuki's writings. Volume 1 (Zen) presents a collection of Suzuki's classic essays as well as lesser-known but equally influential articles on Zen Buddhist thought and practice. Chinese and Japanese characters, which were originally removed from most post-World War II editions of Suzuki's essays, have been reinstated, and the romanization of Buddhist names and technical terms has been updated uniformly throughout the volume. This collection also contains an in-depth introduction to Suzuki's approach to Zen that places his influence in the context of modern developments in religious thought, practice, and scholarship, making this a useful edition for contemporary scholars and students of Buddhism"--Provided by publisher.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jim Harrison
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802143310
Size: 60.99 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2007
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Returning To Earth eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In the aftermath of a Chippewa-Finnish man's death from Lou Gehrig's disease, his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law read the family history he has left behind, study his philosophies about death, and struggle to redeem their own pasts. Reprint.

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Book Detail:
Author: R.W. Perrett
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789024734405
Size: 11.77 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 1987
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF Death And Immortality eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The research for this work was undertaken during my tenure of a Senior Tutor ship in the Faculty of Arts and Music at the University of Otago (1983-85). Versions of some of the chapters herein have already been accepted for publication in the form of journal articles in Philosophy, Philosophy East and West, Sophia, and Religious Studies. My thanks to the editors and publishers concerned for permission to reuse this material. A number of people have assisted me in various ways. My greatest debt is to Graham Oddie, who supervised my doctoral research in this area and with whom I have had the benefit of innumerable discussions on these and other philosophical matters. I am very grateful for all I have learned from him. I would also like to thank: Bob Durrant for commenting helpfully on Chapter 2; the late Jim Harvie, both for his valuable suggestions (particularly regarding the material of Chapter 4) and for his encouraging enthusiasm for the whole project; George Hughes for his extensive comments on the whole work; and (for various points of detail) Alan Musgrave, Charles Pigden and Bryan Wilson. Despite much good advice, however, I have some times preferred to go my own way, recalling Blake's proverb: "If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. " With regard to the typing of the manuscript I am indebted to the word-processor wizardry of Jane Tannahill and Christine Colbert.

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert Kastenbaum
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN:
Size: 15.29 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2009
Category: Death
Language: en
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Download PDF Death Society And Human Experience eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This landmark text on the sociology of death and dying draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage of understanding death and the dying process. The text focuses on both individual and societal attitudes and how they influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss. Robert Kastenbaum is a renowned scholar in the field who developed one of the world's first death education courses and introduced the first text for this market.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Robert Parish
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071784764
Size: 51.11 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2001-11-19
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Hollywood Book Of Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Discover the tantalizing details of Hollywood's famous and infamous fatalities The death of a celebrity is often as fascinating as--and sometimes more fascinating than--a star's actual life. From the grisly end of Sharon Tate at the hands of the Manson family and the mysterious demise of Bob Crane to the peaceful passings of Lucille Ball and George Burns, The Hollywood Book of Death is a captivating and appealingly packaged volume of more than 125 television and movie stars' final curtain calls. Arranged by manner of death, these well-researched accounts include details of celebrities' colorful lives and unusual deaths, their funerals, and the intriguing aftermath. With more than 100 rare photographs and a special "necrology" index of more than 6,000 stars and directors, along with a section revealing where Hollywood personalities are resting in eternal sleep, this enthralling reference promises to be on every film and television buff's "Top 10" gift list.

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Book Detail:
Author: Christina Staudt Ph.D.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 1440828466
Size: 13.44 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013-11-12
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF Our Changing Journey To The End Reshaping Death Dying And Grief In America 2 Volumes eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This novel, cross-disciplinary collection explains how dying, death, and grieving have changed in America, for better or worse, since the turn of the millennium. • Shows how high health care costs; concern for the environment; and a diverse, aging population necessitate rethinking the care of those who are at the end of life • Discusses controversial topics such as extending life versus quality of life and the politics and laws governing assisted suicide and integrating our final resting place into the urban landscape • Addresses the effects of the Internet and social media on customs surrounding dying and mourning • Includes cross-disciplinary insights from fields as diverse as psychology, religion, medicine, law, and popular culture

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