Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Title | Now and at the Hour of Our Death PDF eBook |
Author | Susana Moreira Marques |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Death |
ISBN | 9781908276629 |
A moving exploration of families facing death, in the voices of those affected in one rural corner of Portugal.
The Hour of Our Death
Title | The Hour of Our Death PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Aries |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 697 |
Release | 2013-11-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0804152004 |
An “absolutely magnificent” book (The New Republic)—the fruit of almost two decades of study—that traces the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing a virtual redefinition of human nature. Starting at the very foundations of Western culture, the eminent historian Phillipe Ariès shows how, from Graeco-Roman times through the first ten centuries of the Common Era, death was too common to be frightening; each life was quietly subordinated to the community, which paid its respects and then moved on. Ariès identifies the first major shift in attitude with the turn of the eleventh century when a sense of individuality began to rise and with it, profound consequences: death no longer meant merely the weakening of community, but rather the destruction of self. Hence the growing fear of the afterlife, new conceptions of the Last Judgment, and the first attempts (by Masses and other rituals) to guarantee a better life in the next world. In the 1500s attention shifted from the demise of the self to that of the loved one (as family supplants community), and by the nineteenth century death comes to be viewed as simply a staging post toward reunion in the hereafter. Finally, Ariès shows why death has become such an unendurable truth in our own century—how it has been nearly banished from our daily lives—and points out what may be done to “re-tame” this secret terror. The richness of Ariès's source material and investigative work is breathtaking. While exploring everything from churches, religious rituals, and graveyards (with their often macabre headstones and monuments), to wills and testaments, love letters, literature, paintings, diaries, town plans, crime and sanitation reports, and grave robbing complaints, Aries ranges across Europe to Russia on the one hand and to England and America on the other. As he sorts out the tangled mysteries of our accumulated terrors and beliefs, we come to understand the history—indeed the pathology—of our intellectual and psychological tensions in the face of death.
At the Hour of Death
Title | At the Hour of Death PDF eBook |
Author | Kārlis Osis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Death |
ISBN | 9780803892842 |
"What do we know about immortality? We can be certain that the body does not survive death. Once the heart stops circulating blood, the brain is no longer nourished and begins to decay. On the basis of medical evidence it would seem that, within a quarter of an hour, the personality is irreparably destroyed and the individual ceases to exist. But now there is mounting scientific evidene for a life after death. This book is the product of extensive interviews of over 1,000 doctors and nurses who have been present when cases of 'postmortem existence' have occurred. Extensive computer analyses of their observations have been made. The results are reported in this first truly scientific investigation of the experiences of the dying at the hour of death. What these doctors and nurses have witnessed cannot be explained away by medical, psychological, cultural, or other conditioning. Yet it may answer the fundamental question of human existence -- is there life after death?"--back cover.
Western Attitudes toward Death
Title | Western Attitudes toward Death PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Ariès |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 1975-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801817625 |
AriA]s traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of the human race to the modern tendency, so pronounced in industrial societies, to hide death as if it were an embarrassing family secret. -- Newsweek
Now and in the Hour of Our Death
Title | Now and in the Hour of Our Death PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Taylor |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2014-07-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0765335190 |
After landing in jail for making bombs for the IRA, Davy McCutcheon escapes and seeks out his ex-fiancée, who has tried to move on with her life in Vancouver, Canada.
Now and at the Hour
Title | Now and at the Hour PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Cormier |
Publisher | Laurel Leaf |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN |
Now and at the Hour
Title | Now and at the Hour PDF eBook |
Author | Bess Kercher |
Publisher | Warren Publishing, Incorporated |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2020-10-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781735560168 |
For twelve-year-old Catholic school kid Albert Davidson, skateboarding in the hills and parks of San Francisco provides a sense of freedom and adventure to an otherwise cautious lifestyle. He's always been one to keep things steady and under tight control (even if he has to tell the occasional lie to do so). This careful approach to life is turned upside down when his mom is diagnosed with cancer. Even as Albert struggles to keep things normal by hanging out with his two best friends, his life continues to be full of surprises. While hiking one day near Lands End, he jumps into dangerous waters to rescue a dying shark-an act that is recorded by onlookers. Videos of the bold act soon go viral, and Albert becomes an internet celebrity overnight. His newfound popularity launches an unusual quest for healing, fueled by his mom's intensifying battle and Albert's determination to find a cure. A quieter adventure unfolds with the boys and a mysterious stranger, whose unsafe circumstances lead Albert to double down on his secrets and lies. With problems escalating all around him, will Albert find the remedies he so desperately seeks?