The eternal pity : reflections on dying

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Publié dans: Twentieth Century Religious Thought. volume I, Christianity
Autres auteurs: Neuhaus, Richard John. (Éditeur scientifique)
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Langue: Anglais
Publié: Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2019.
Collection: Ethics of everyday life
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Résumé: Drawing upon a vast range of human experience and reflection, The Eternal Pity: Reflections on Dying demonstrates how people try to cope with the inevitability of death. Different cultures, informed by religious beliefs and sometimes desperate hope, teach people to respond to their own death and the deaths of others in modes as various as defiance, stoic resignation, and unbridled grief. In addition to examples from literature, poetry, and religious texts, Father Richard John Neuhaus provides an intensely personal account of his encounter with death through emergency cancer surgery and reflects on how that encounter has changed the way he lives. While many writers have deplored the "denial of death" in our culture, The Eternal Pity shows how themes of death and dying are nevertheless perennial and pervasive. Society may be viewed as a disorganized march of multitudes waving little banners of meaning before the threat of nonbeing that is death. Some selections in this book depict people utterly surprised by their mortality; others highlight how the whole of one's life can be a preparation for what used to be called "a good death." For some, life is a relentless effort to hold death at bay; for others, death is, although not welcomed, reflectively anticipated. Nothing so universally defines the human condition as the fact that we shall die. The Eternal Pity helps us to understand how the prospect of death compels decisions about how we might live
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Dans: Twentieth Century Religious Thought. volume I, Christianity
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504 |a Références bibliographiques (pages 179-181) et index. 
505 0 |a 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) 
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520 |a Drawing upon a vast range of human experience and reflection, The Eternal Pity: Reflections on Dying demonstrates how people try to cope with the inevitability of death. Different cultures, informed by religious beliefs and sometimes desperate hope, teach people to respond to their own death and the deaths of others in modes as various as defiance, stoic resignation, and unbridled grief. In addition to examples from literature, poetry, and religious texts, Father Richard John Neuhaus provides an intensely personal account of his encounter with death through emergency cancer surgery and reflects on how that encounter has changed the way he lives. While many writers have deplored the "denial of death" in our culture, The Eternal Pity shows how themes of death and dying are nevertheless perennial and pervasive. Society may be viewed as a disorganized march of multitudes waving little banners of meaning before the threat of nonbeing that is death. Some selections in this book depict people utterly surprised by their mortality; others highlight how the whole of one's life can be a preparation for what used to be called "a good death." For some, life is a relentless effort to hold death at bay; for others, death is, although not welcomed, reflectively anticipated. Nothing so universally defines the human condition as the fact that we shall die. The Eternal Pity helps us to understand how the prospect of death compels decisions about how we might live 
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