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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do is a 1974 nonfiction book by the oral historian and radio broadcaster Studs Terkel. [ 1 ] Working investigates the meaning of work for different people under different circumstances, showing it can vary in importance. [ 2 ]
Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life is a three-part television documentary presented by Richard Dawkins which explores what reason and science might offer in major events of human lives. He argues that ideas about the soul and the afterlife , of sin and God's purpose have shaped human thinking for thousands of years. [ 1 ]
Those who work in end-of-life care understand that most people don’t want to talk about death. But they agree that doing it anyway is the best way to make the experience peaceful — not just ...
Precursory work, as seen above, had created a prototype field of research for the sociology of death to grow out from. Further work in the 1960s [3] grew into a defined interdisciplinary field from the 1990s with great outputs of research and offerings of academic courses on sociologically related issues around death. [5]
According to Daniel Goleman, Rinpoche was already planning to write a book on living and dying in the late 1970s. [2] In 1983, he met Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Kenneth Ring and other figures in the caring professions and near-death research, and they encouraged him to develop his work in opening up the Tibetan teachings on death and helping the dying.
This book is a collection of shorter essays, lectures, and reviews written between 1962 and 1968. 1971. The Lost Science of Man. New York: George Braziller. 1971. The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man (2nd ed.). New York: Free Press. 1973. The Denial of Death. New York: Free Press. 1975.
The Sickness unto Death (Danish: Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. A work of Christian existentialism, the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, which he terms "the sin of despair".
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