Titre :	The eternal pity : reflections on dying
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Richard John Neuhaus, Éditeur scientifique
Editeur :	Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press
Année de publication :	c2000
Collection :	Ethics of everyday life
Importance :	xiv, 181 p.
Format :	24 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-268-02757-5
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Death
Index. décimale :	BD 444
Note de contenu :	I: Thinking about dying : twelve classic visions. The certainty of death / George Herbert ("Mortification") -- The figure of death (from the Katha-Upanishad) -- The romance of death / Charles Dickens (from Dombey and Son) -- Where are the snows of yesteryear? / Manuel Bandeira ("Profundamente") -- In the midst of life we are in death / John Donne (from Devotions upon emergent occasions) -- The morality of death / Flannery O'Connor ("A good man is hard to find") -- Death in war / William Shakespeare (from Henry V) ; Wilfred Owen ("Anthem for doomed youth") -- Acceptance beyond fear / Montaigne ("To philosophize is to learn to die") -- Eat, drink, and be merry / Edward FitzGerald (from The rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) -- Fate as the will of God (from the Quran) -- The phenomenon of hope / Dietrich von Hildebrand (from Jaws of death, gate of heaven) -- The irreplaceable dead / Dylan Thomas ("A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London") -- II: When we die. The experience of death / Leo Tolstoy (from The death of Ivan Ilych) -- The ease of death / Ernest Sandeen ("Do not go gentle") -- The testimony of the dying / Carol Zaleski (from The life of the world to come) -- Choosing suicide / A. Alvarez (from The savage god) -- Choosing to live / Gilbert Meilaender ("I want to burden my loved ones") -- Hastening death / Jeffrey E. Ford ("Mercy killing at Golgotha") -- Holding still for death / Christian de Chergé ("Last testament") -- III: When others die. The experience of grief / C.S. Lewis (from A grief observed) -- Burying the dead / Ralph Abernathy (from And the walls came tumbling down) -- Dying alone / Alane Salierno Mason ("Reconciliation of unbelief") -- Watching others die / Peter De Vries (from The blood of the lamb) -- The uses of ritual / Milton Himmelfarb ("Going to shul") -- Refusing consolation / Jody Bottum ("All that lives must die") -- The life of the world to come (from The book of common prayer).

The eternal pity : reflections on dying [texte imprimé] / Richard John Neuhaus, Éditeur scientifique . - Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, c2000 . - xiv, 181 p. ; 24 cm. - (Ethics of everyday life) .
ISBN : 978-0-268-02757-5
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Death
Index. décimale :	BD 444
Note de contenu :	I: Thinking about dying : twelve classic visions. The certainty of death / George Herbert ("Mortification") -- The figure of death (from the Katha-Upanishad) -- The romance of death / Charles Dickens (from Dombey and Son) -- Where are the snows of yesteryear? / Manuel Bandeira ("Profundamente") -- In the midst of life we are in death / John Donne (from Devotions upon emergent occasions) -- The morality of death / Flannery O'Connor ("A good man is hard to find") -- Death in war / William Shakespeare (from Henry V) ; Wilfred Owen ("Anthem for doomed youth") -- Acceptance beyond fear / Montaigne ("To philosophize is to learn to die") -- Eat, drink, and be merry / Edward FitzGerald (from The rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) -- Fate as the will of God (from the Quran) -- The phenomenon of hope / Dietrich von Hildebrand (from Jaws of death, gate of heaven) -- The irreplaceable dead / Dylan Thomas ("A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London") -- II: When we die. The experience of death / Leo Tolstoy (from The death of Ivan Ilych) -- The ease of death / Ernest Sandeen ("Do not go gentle") -- The testimony of the dying / Carol Zaleski (from The life of the world to come) -- Choosing suicide / A. Alvarez (from The savage god) -- Choosing to live / Gilbert Meilaender ("I want to burden my loved ones") -- Hastening death / Jeffrey E. Ford ("Mercy killing at Golgotha") -- Holding still for death / Christian de Chergé ("Last testament") -- III: When others die. The experience of grief / C.S. Lewis (from A grief observed) -- Burying the dead / Ralph Abernathy (from And the walls came tumbling down) -- Dying alone / Alane Salierno Mason ("Reconciliation of unbelief") -- Watching others die / Peter De Vries (from The blood of the lamb) -- The uses of ritual / Milton Himmelfarb ("Going to shul") -- Refusing consolation / Jody Bottum ("All that lives must die") -- The life of the world to come (from The book of common prayer).