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- The classification of a death as natural, accidental, suicidal, homicidal, or indeterminate, for which the abbreviation NASH is sometimes used. The determination of the manner of death when it is suspicious, questioned, or unattended is usually the responsibility of a......
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Jan 2, 2018 · Broad categories are suggested for the study of death: some authors give personal accounts of their impending death or their sense of bereavement; some use literature to structure and order our thoughts about death; and some treat death as a literary device, using it, for example, as a symbolic representation of the decay of society.
- John Skelton
- 2003
Jan 1, 2010 · 21.1 Definitions of Death. In medicine there is the main goal of preventing death, yet it is not clear how we may understand what death is. The following shows the various ways in which death can and cannot be understood. Death is often said to be: the end of life, destruction of the human organism, extinction.
- Barbara Maier, Warren A. Shibles
- 2011
Everyone will eventually die, and death treats all social classes equally. Literature responds, in poetry, sermons, novels and plays, to humour death. All these writers mentioned in this article faced these limitations of understanding death and the afterlife.
Oct 22, 2019 · This chapter explains why humans create literary depictions of death, describes how imaginative meaning works in literature, characterizes the emotions evoked in literary depictions of death,...
- Joseph Carroll
- Survival
- Childhood
- The Intimate Pair Bond
Death, or avoiding death, is the natural end of a survival story. When people are threatened by natural forces, enemies, predators, hunger, or illness, survival becomes an urgent motive. A protagonist’s mind often becomes concentrated with painful intensity on the details of his physical environment and his efforts to control that environment. Most...
When a child dies in real life, what is lost is the whole potential future life of the child (Baumeister, 1991a). The magnitude of the loss evokes a special pathos. For most people, the death of the elderly can scarcely matter so much. Old people have had their lives, as much as could be expected. For most adults, sorrow at a child’s death combines...
Pair bonding and dual parenting are core features of the human adaptive complex (Chapais, 2013, 2017; Fisher, 2016; Low, 2015). Erotic romance or romantic love is a motivator for pair bonding. Though not officially approved in all cultures, it appears to be a human universal (Gottschall & Nordlund, 2006; Nordlund, 2007). Romantic comedies—whether i...
- Joseph Carroll
- jcarroll@umsl.edu
- 2019
May 1, 2003 · This paper considers how death and dying are presented in literature. A wide range of texts, principally but not exclusively from the English language tradition, is used to illustrate themes.
What are the differences and similarities between representing death in literature and death representations in other connected fields? Are metaphors and literary representations of death forms of death denial, or, on the contrary, a more insightful way of capturing the meaning of death?
