On Our Way: The Final Passage through Life and DeathUniversity of California Press, 20 մյս, 2004 թ. - 460 էջ How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country—and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of the inevitable end. In this book a preeminent and eminently wise writer on death and dying proposes a new way of understanding our last transition. A fresh exploration of the final passage through life and perhaps through death, his work deftly interweaves historical and contemporary experiences and reflections to demonstrate that we are always on our way. Drawing on a remarkable range of observations—from psychology, anthropology, religion, biology, and personal experience—Robert Kastenbaum re-envisions life's forward-looking progress, from early-childhood bedtime rituals to the many small rehearsals we stage for our final separation. Along the way he illuminates such moments and ideas as becoming a "corpsed person," going down to earth or up in flames, respecting or abusing (and eating) the dead, coping with "too many dead," conceiving and achieving a "good death," undertaking the journey of the dead, and learning to live through the scrimmage of daily life fully knowing that Eternity does not really come in a designer flask. Profound, insightful, often moving, this look at death as many cultures await it or approach it enriches our understanding of life as a never-ending passage. |
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... died . " The thousands whose bones lie beneath the feet of cathedral visitors in Vienna had names that are mostly forgotten , even to the keepers of records . Along with their names has perished the texture of their lives . What about ...
... died . " The thousands whose bones lie beneath the feet of cathedral visitors in Vienna had names that are mostly forgotten , even to the keepers of records . Along with their names has perished the texture of their lives . What about ...
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... died during the night. In my prayers I would ask God to keep me safe and not let me die in the night. My Mom would check in on us before she went to bed for the night. Sharing a room with my sisters, until I went away to college, was ...
... died during the night. In my prayers I would ask God to keep me safe and not let me die in the night. My Mom would check in on us before she went to bed for the night. Sharing a room with my sisters, until I went away to college, was ...
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... died, I cried but at the same time it never crossed my mind to take that special trip to see her before she died. At the time of her death, I cried but at the same time I felt a sense of detachment and went on with my life and my daily ...
... died, I cried but at the same time it never crossed my mind to take that special trip to see her before she died. At the time of her death, I cried but at the same time I felt a sense of detachment and went on with my life and my daily ...
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... died. It was the first such loss he had had to deal with. But then he discovered that those old bed- time rituals were there for him: [P]raising God every night from as far back as I can remember to now helped me cope with my friend's ...
... died. It was the first such loss he had had to deal with. But then he discovered that those old bed- time rituals were there for him: [P]raising God every night from as far back as I can remember to now helped me cope with my friend's ...
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... Dying was published in 1651.3 It is now recognized as the classic presentation of the Ars moriendi (dying well) tradition and therefore de- serves to have its full title bannered out: The Rule and Exercises of holy dying: in which are ...
... Dying was published in 1651.3 It is now recognized as the classic presentation of the Ars moriendi (dying well) tradition and therefore de- serves to have its full title bannered out: The Rule and Exercises of holy dying: in which are ...
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In Other Times and Places | 43 |
Here and Now | 93 |
5 Corpsed Persons | 138 |
6 Abusing and Eating the Dead | 176 |
The Plague and Other Mass Deaths | 218 |
8 Down to Earth and Up in Flames | 262 |
9 Journey of the Dead | 311 |
10 Living Through | 355 |
NOTES | 415 |
SOURCES CITED | 429 |
INDEX | 441 |
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