Coping with Choices to Die - C. G. Prado

Coping with Choices to Die

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Buch | Softcover
206 Seiten
2010
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-13248-0 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
Examines how reactions to elective death are influenced by cultural influences and beliefs. Understanding the role of these influences on the grieving processes of survivors is a crucial step in allowing them to accept the finality of elective death and to deal with the decision of their loved one.
This book examines the reactions of the friends and family of those who elect to die due to terminal illness. These surviving spouses, partners, relatives and friends, in addition to coping with the death of a loved one, must also deal with the loved one's decision to die, thus severing the relationship. C. G. Prado examines how reactions to elective death are influenced by cultural influences and beliefs, particularly those related to life, death and the possibility of an afterlife. Understanding the role of these cultural influences on the grieving processes of survivors is a crucial step in allowing them to accept both intellectually and emotionally the finality of elective death and to deal with the decision of their loved one.

C. G. Prado is professor emeritus of philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. His most recent publications are Starting with Descartes (2009), Foucault's Legacy (2009), Choosing to Die: Elective Death and Multiculturalism (2008) and Searle and Foucault on Truth (2006).

Preface: emotions, feelings, and thoughts Wesley Boston; 1. Laying the groundwork; 2. Feelings: their influences and control; 3. Culture's elusive role; 4. Revising the criterion for rational elective death; 5. Two philosophical challenges; 6. Survivors' responses; 7. Accepting finality; Appendix: belief in an afterlife.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.11.2010
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Gewicht 280 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Medizin / Pharmazie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte Tod
ISBN-10 0-521-13248-7 / 0521132487
ISBN-13 978-0-521-13248-0 / 9780521132480
Zustand Neuware
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