Coping with choices to die
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Cambridge University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge New York |
Publication Dates: | 2011. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xv, 187 p.: ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780521114769 (hardback) 0521114764 (hardback) 9780521132480 (pbk.) 0521132487 (pbk.) |
Index Number: | C913 |
CLC: | C913.9 |
Call Number: | C913.9/P896 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-183) and index. Foreword: emotions, feelings, and thoughts / by Wesley Boston -- Laying the groundwork -- Feelings: their influences and control -- Culture's elusive role -- Revising the criterion for rational elective death -- Two philosophical challenges -- Survivors' responses -- Accepting finality -- Appendix: belief in an afterlife. |