SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Research objectives: Anxiety and fear of dying in ACS episodes are recognized as common symptoms that can influence patient outcomes. Etiology of those symptoms remains uncertain, but evidence suggests that the severity of other symptoms and their rapid appearance, combined with the life-threatening nature of ACS, are the main factors. Methods: This review explores mainly PubMed and Google Scholar databases for stud…

Reference · Wikidata

personification of death

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Personifications of death are found in many religions and mythologies. In more modern stories, a character known as the Grim Reaper causes the victim's death by coming to collect that person's soul. Other beliefs hold that the spectre of death is only a psychopomp, a benevolent figure who serves to gently sever the last ties between the soul and the body, and to guide the deceased to the afterlife, without having an…

Book · DOAB

This Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive, international cartography of Queer Death Studies, offering broad, in-depth insights into the field and its emergence through tentacular transdisciplinary networking. Taking research and art-making on death, dying, mourning, and afterlife into new directions, it explores the multiple effects of contemporary necropolitics and the proliferation of death-worlds during the c…

Full text · Open Library

In the past, most people encountered death at a relatively young age. Dying relatives were cared for at home, and mortality rates were higher. Today, there is much less familiarity with death, which increasingly takes place in hospitals, hospices and nursing homes. This wide-ranging and enlightening book offers an exploration of death and dying as human conditions that impact on the individual, their significant oth…

Image · DPLA

March 11, 2009 Writer: Drew Bloodworth, 706/542-5172, lawprstu@uga.edu (lawprstu@uga.edu) Contact: Paul M. Kurtz, 706/542-7140, pmkurtz@uga.edu (pmkurtz@uga.edu) Athens, Ga. - Stanford Law School Vice Dean and Gaither Professor Mark G. Kelman will deliver the University of Georgia School of Law's 104th Sibley Lecture. His talk titled "Saving Lives, Saving from Death, Saving from Dying" will address the issue of how …