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Lurlene McDaniel (born April 5, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American author who has written more than 70 young adult books.She is well known for writing about young adults struggling with mortality and chronic illness, a career that began as a therapeutic way to deal with the trauma when her son, then 3, was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes.
Somewhere Between is a drama television series commissioned by ABC and produced by ITV Studios America and Thunderbird Entertainment. The show is an American adaptation of the Korean mystery TV show God's Gift: 14 Days, which aired on SBS. The show follows a mother who tries to change the fate of her daughter's murder.
Necropolitics is a sociopolitical theory of the use of social and political power to dictate how some people may live and how some must die. The deployment of necropolitics creates what Achille Mbembe calls deathworlds, or "new and unique forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjected to living conditions that confer upon them the status of the living dead."
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The belief in the rebirth after death became the driving force behind funeral practices; for them, death was a temporary interruption rather than complete cessation of life. Eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through mummification , and the provision of statuary and other funerary ...
McCandless's life became the subject of numerous articles, books, films, and documentaries, which helped elevate his life to the status of modern myth. [36] He became a romantic figure to some, inspired by what they see as his free-spirited transcendentalism, but to others, he is a controversial, misguided person. [31] [37] [38]
Jeannot Szwarc, the director known for 1978’s Jaws 2 and more, has died at the age of 85. Actress Jane Seymour, who played the role of Elise McKenna in Somewhere in Time, paid tribute to Szwarc ...
Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley is a novel by Peter Kreeft about U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and authors C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) meeting in Purgatory and engaging in a philosophical discussion on faith.