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"The Day I Die is a major work of nonfiction that tackles the one issue we'll all eventually come to face-our final days, hours, and minutes. With clarity and empathy, award-winning anthropologist Anita Hannig uncovers the stigma against the practice of assisted dying, untangles the legalities and logistics of pursuing an assisted death in America today, and profiles the dedicated advocates and medical personnel involved. In intimate, lyrical detail,...
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This book is based on, an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and poet, author and historian commentator Jennifer Michael Hecht. After intriguing details about how she combines writing poetry, doing scholarly history and public writing, this wide-ranging conversation movingly embellishes upon Jennifer Michael Hecht's book Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It.
This carefully-edited book includes an introduction,...Or...
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In Dying for Heaven, Georgetown scholar and advisor to the defense community Ariel Glucklich explains the religious motivation of terrorism. This provocative work of political science argues that the very best qualities of religion-its ability to make people feel good and bring them together-are in fact its most dangerous. Glucklich, author of Sacred Pain and Climbing Chamundi Hill, offers a new understanding of religion and provides a vision for...
4) Suicide in Intersex, Trans and Other Sex and/or Gender Diverse Groups: A Health Professional's Guide
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This book contains a review of the incidence of suicidal thoughts, attempts and successful suicides in people from sex and/or gender diverse (SGD) groups.
These are people who are intersex, androgynous, trans, non-binary and more. It offers information into the experiences of people from SGD groups, the discrimination and abuse they have encountered and the many reasons why they might contemplate, attempt, or succeed in ending their own lives.
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For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world--a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. explores the way suicide passed from the unthinkable to the unremarkable in Cuban society.In...
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Partez à la découverte du suicide avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
Le suicide trahit au premier chef le désir de surmonter l'irréversibilité, mais dans l'antécédence. « C'est parfois la peur de la mort qui pousse les hommes à la mort », disait Épicure. Mais qu'est-ce que cette crainte de la mort, sinon l'attente d'un sort inévitable? Aussi bien, l'angoisse de mort ...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir...
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One particularly challenging aspect of the Hebrew Bible is its treatment of various forms of voluntary death: suicide, suicide attack, martyrdom, and self-sacrifice. How can people of faith make sense of the ways biblical literature at times valorizes these sensitive and painful topics?
Willingness to Die and the Gift of Life surveys a diverse selection of Hebrew Bible narratives that feature characters who express a willingness to die, including...
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