Article: Midway Games ships War Gods for May 24th national retail debut.
Business Wire;  May 23, 1997 ;     429 words ......retailers copies of the video game War Gods(R) for the two best selling next generation...Nintendo 64 (N64) and Sony PlayStation. War Gods(R) will make its national debut in retail stores on May 24th. The War Gods(R) home game is based upon Midway's...

Article: Definitions of Death
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying;      700+ words ...Definitions of Death In the past, death has often been defined with a few confident words. For example...edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica informed its readership that "DEATH is generally considered as the separation of the soul and body...

Article: Good Death, the
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying;      700+ words ...Good Death, The What is the good life? Most people would...parallel situation in regard to the good death. Not surprisingly, most people would prefer...markedly in their conception of the good death. The long and eventful history of the good...

Article: Death and Dying
The Oxford Companion to United States History;      700+ words ...Death and Dying. Starting in the 1980s, social historians began to trace the history of death in America, a subject once considered outside the realm of...reinforced by such books as Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death (1963)—of Americans as a death‐denying people...

Article: GIVING DEATH ITS DUE : Christianity's eschatological hope.(Brief Article)
Commonweal;  January 26, 2001 ;     700+ words ...This past year felt full of death. One of our godchildren, a twelve-year-o...didn't expect her to die so soon. Her death would have been even more difficult for...changed forever. My sorrow over my mother's death involved my father's sorrow, of course...

Article: Moment of Death
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying;      700+ words ...Moment of Death Is there a moment of death? Millions of death certificates provide abundant evidence — or do they? Many world religions also envision an awesome moment in which the soul departs from the body to continue its existence in another...

Article: How Death Came into the World
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying;      700+ words ...How Death Came into the World Traditional, mythic accounts of the origin of death extend back to the earliest hunter-gatherer cultures...although people did not like the idea or experience of death, they nevertheless embraced it when given the choice...

Article: Grief, Death, Funerals
Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society;      700+ words ...Grief, Death, Funerals Death is clearly part of human experience, and yet children's experience of death depends heavily on their cultures' social customs and discourses surrounding death and funeral practices, beliefs regarding the afterlife, and...

Article: death's head
The Oxford Companion to the Body;      582 words ...death's head The figure of the death's head has been a prominent symbol of human mortality and the vanity...as an emblem for a 1980's heavy metal band, the human skull brings death to mind; as a well-known and popular image, its primary purpose is...

Article: Personifications of Death
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying;      700+ words ...Personifications of Death Visitors to the Church of St. Nicholas...Estonia, will recall the representation of death as a bony, dark figure with a skull, as...others are acquainted with the image of death as the reaper in Ingmar Bergman's dramatic...

Article: Let church speak out on death, dying.(Column)
National Catholic Reporter;  November 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......century continues to be drenched in death. Increased population and sophisticated technology have facilitated mega death on a brutal scale. Back in the 1950s...Africa. We are over-familiarized with death on a massive scale, which yet we keep...

Article: Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy.(Review)
The Modern Language Review;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance...adds to this decade's spate of books on death in the Renaissance is some vivid evocation...some plausible explanation of Dance of Death motifs, and some characteristically perceptive...

Article: Death, nothingness, and subjectivity.
The Humanist;  November 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...For only death annihilates all sense, all becoming, to...distill the common secular conception of death. If we decline the traditional religious...and thoroughly modern materialist view of death, then we likely end up with Gonzalez-Cruzzi...

Article: Death Anxiety
Encyclopedia of Aging;      700+ words ...DEATH ANXIETY Although humans have always thought about death, empirical research on death anxiety did not begin in earnest until the late 1950s. Over one thousand articles have now appeared on the...