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One in particular was Herman Feifel, an American psychologist who is considered the pioneer of the modern death movement. [2] Feifel broke the taboo on discussions of death and dying with the publication of his book The Meaning of Death. [5] In this book, Feifel [6] dispelled myths held by scientists and practitioners about death and the denial ...
In the 1960s pioneering professionals like that of Herman Feifel (1959), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1969), and Cicely Saunders (1967) encouraged behavioral scientists, clinicians, and humanists to pay attention and to study death-related topics. This initiated the death-awareness movement and began the widespread study of death-related behavior ...
Walter Arnold Kaufmann (July 1, 1921 – September 4, 1980) was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet.A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature.
Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.
Ten-year-old Harald Quandt (in DJ-uniform) at his mother's wedding with Joseph Goebbels.Hitler, who acted as a witness, can be seen in the background. Magda and Günther Quandt were married on 4 January 1921, and her first child, Harald Quandt, was born on 1 November 1921. [4]
The American Way of Death is an exposé of abuses in the funeral home industry in the United States, written by Jessica Mitford and published in 1963. An updated revision, The American Way of Death Revisited , largely completed by Mitford just before her death in 1996, appeared in 1998.
Gerrit Jan Heukels (25 March 1866 – 19 August 1952) was an optician and photographer, and his children included Jan, Herman, and others. Herman was ambitious, while his older brother Jan was more relaxed and flighty. Herman helped manage and grow the family business; the family cut and sold glasses as well as photographs and photo equipment.
Herman Wouk (/ w oʊ k / WOHK; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author. He published fifteen novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.