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
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable;      297 words ...death often (as Death) represented in art and literature as a skeleton or an old man holding a scythe, the personification of the power that destroys life. death in the pot a biblical phrase, from the story of a famine during which...

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: 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: Life after death
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;      4 words ...Life after death: see DEATH .

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: Death is most natural thing in the world: a world with no room for death has no room for a meaningful life.(Column)
National Catholic Reporter;  July 26, 1996 ;     700+ words ...No thanks, man, I ain't going up to that death house. When even the down-and-out begin...our place the haunted house. So to have death as a frequent visitor in our home has not...because our homes have become inhospitable to death, they are also inhospitable to life. Much...

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: 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...