Thinking Clearly about Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thinking Clearly about Death write by Jay F. Rosenberg. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Thinking Clearly about Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jay Rosenberg's penetrating and persuasively argued analysis of the central metaphysical and moral questions pertaining to death has been updated and revised to expand and deepen several of its key arguments and to address conceptual developments of the past fifteen years. Among the topics discussed are: Life After Death; The Limits of Theorizing; The Limits of Imagination; Death and Personhood; Values and Rights; Mercy Killing; Prolonging Life; Rational Suicide; and One's Own Death. Rosenberg's prose is lucid, lively, thoroughly absorbing, and accessible to introductory-level readers. Essential reading for anyone interested in reflecting on this engaging topic.
Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer
Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer write by R. Raj Singh. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought. This book examines the classical sources of this philosophical literature, in particular Plato's Phaedo and the Katha Upanishad and then proceeds to a sustained analysis and critical assessment of the sources and standpoints of a single thinker, Arthur Schopenhauer, whose work comprehensively pursues this problem. Going beyond the well examined western influences on Schopenhauer, Singh offers an in-depth account of Schopenhauer's references to eastern thought and a comprehensive examination of his eastern sources, particularly Vedanta and Buddhism. The book traces the pivotal issue of death through the whole range of Schopenhauer's writings uncovering the deeper connotations of his crucial notion of the will-to-live.
Safe Passage
Safe Passage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Safe Passage write by Richard E. Simmons, III. This book was released on 2006-02. Safe Passage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Suggests that as mature, responsible adults we must recognise that until we choose to examine and accept the philosophical implications of death, we actually forego the opportunity of experiencing the rich promises of life.
Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Top Five Regrets of the Dying - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Top Five Regrets of the Dying write by Bronnie Ware. This book was released on 2019-08-13. Top Five Regrets of the Dying available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Year of Magical Thinking write by Joan Didion. This book was released on 2007-02-13. The Year of Magical Thinking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later—the night before New Year’s Eve—the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.
