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A doctor explains what we know - BBC Science Focus Magazine. While we don’t know if anything happens afterwards, we do know exactly what happens in the final moments. Dr Kathryn Mannix leads you through the last few steps.
Nov 1, 2021 · With help from Kierkegaard, Rilke, and Heidegger, Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, examines the ways we process mortality.
An exploration of what makes life worth living in the face of death — and how to move forward with grief and loss.
Apr 1, 2016 · Crossing Over: How Science Is Redefining Life and Death. Can death be reversible? And what are we learning about the gray zone between here and the other side?
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- Robin Marantz Henig,Lynn Johnson
May 15, 2007 · Arguments that do make such an appeal are soul-centered, holding that meaning in life mainly comes from having an immortal, spiritual substance that is contiguous with one’s body when it is alive and that will forever outlive its death.
Oct 26, 2007 · First published Fri Oct 26, 2007; substantive revision Mon May 17, 2021. The philosophical investigation of human death has focused on two overarching questions: (1) What is human death? and (2) How can we determine that it has occurred? The first question is ontological or conceptual.
May 22, 2002 · Our thoughts then turn to death, and we decide it is bad: the better life is, we think, the better more life would be, and the worse death is. At this point, we are in danger of condemning the human condition, which embraces life and death, on the grounds that it has a tragic side, namely death.
