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  2. Man Was Made to Mourn - Wikipedia

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    The Age and Life of Man" that Burns wrote about hearing his mother sing was a 17th-century ballad. it served as the basis of "Man Was Made to Mourn". [2] An early draft of the poem was included in The First Commonplace Book , a work that was largely texts intended to be sung to the tunes of existing songs.

  3. An Unkindness of Ravens - Wikipedia

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    Things become more complicated when a number of young men are stabbed by teenaged girls belonging to a radical feminist group called ARRIA, whose logo is a human-headed raven. This has a large following in the local girls' schools, including those attended by relatives and friends of the two Williams families.

  4. Social death - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Social death is defined by "three aspects: a loss of social identity, a loss of social connectedness and losses associated with disintegration of the body." [4] Examples of social death are: Racial and gender exclusion, persecution, slavery, and apartheid. [5] [6] [7] Governments can exclude individuals or groups from society.

  5. Human condition - Wikipedia

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    The human condition can be defined as the characteristics and key events of human life, including birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, reason, morality, conflict, and death. This is a very broad topic that has been and continues to be pondered and analyzed from many perspectives, including those of art , biology , literature , philosophy ...

  6. Humankind: A Hopeful History - Wikipedia

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    And we do. Famously, Anatomist Raymond Dart examined the remains of a 2 or 3 million-year-old hominid in 1924 and declared its cause of death to be of human origin. Not only was this person's death at the hands of a fellow human, but Dart would also find many remains from the same period to have died in the same manner.

  7. Existential nihilism - Wikipedia

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    Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".

  8. Misanthropy - Wikipedia

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    [117] [118] [119] In this regard, Schopenhauer dismisses most things that are typically considered precious or meaningful in human life, like romantic love, individuality, and liberty. [120] He holds that the best response to the human condition is a form of asceticism by denying the expression of the will. This is only found in rare humans and ...

  9. Human extinction - Wikipedia

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    Human extinction or omnicide is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact or large-scale volcanism, or via anthropogenic destruction (self-extinction).