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2. Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the ...

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   American historians, in the years that followed the publication of Western Attitudes Toward Death, became particularly interested in the deviation Ariès noted between Americans and Europeans. [33] David Stannard, an early reviewer of Ariès's work, penned The Puritan Way of Death a few short years after Ariès's publication. He maintained that ...

3. Funerary art in Puritan New England - Wikipedia

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   Early New England Puritan funerary art conveys a practical attitude towards 17th-century mortality; death was an ever-present reality of life, [1] and their funerary traditions and grave art provide a unique insight into their views on death. The minimalist decoration and lack of embellishment of the early headstone designs reflect the British ...

4. De mortuis nil nisi bonum - Wikipedia

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   In Thoughts for the Times on War and Death (1915), Sigmund Freud denounced the cultural stupidity that was the First World War (1914–18); yet, in the essay "Our Attitude Towards Death", recognised the humanity of the participants, and the respect owed them in the mortuary phrase De mortuis nil nisi bene.

5. Death in the Byzantine Empire - Wikipedia

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   The details of the mourning that followed are depicted in numerous images on funerary steles and ceramic vases. The ritual included various gestures, lamentations by women, movements around the coffin, and chants. The length of the wake varied from 9 days in the case of Hector to the three days recommended by Solon and common in ancient times. [38]

6. Death anxiety - Wikipedia

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   Those who are moving towards death will undergo a series of stages. In Kubhler-Ross's book On Death and Dying (1969), she describes these stages thus: 1) denial that death is soon to come, 2) resentful feelings towards those who will yet live, 3) bargaining with the idea of dying, 4) feeling depressed due to inescapable death, and 5) acceptance ...

7. Death and culture - Wikipedia

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   In mainland China and Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, the number 4 is often associated with death because the sound of the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean words for four and death are similar (for example, the sound sì in Chinese is the Sino-Korean number 4 (四), whereas sǐ is the word for death (死), and in Japanese "shi" is the number 4, whereas ...

8. Cause of death revealed for elderly nudist couple allegedly ...

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   That formed his hatred towards them,” she alleged. Sparks refused to surrender to cops last month, leading to an hours-long standoff that ended with armored vehicles knocking down his home.

9. Death and adjustment hypotheses - Wikipedia

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   As outlined very briefly in journal articles, DAH hypothesizes the following for optimum attitude towards death as well as to harmonize the adjustment problems in relation to the phenomenon: [8] Death and Adjustment Hypotheses – One: In the absence of empirical evidence from science, to regard death to be not our absolute end seems natural ...