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  2. Ars moriendi - Wikipedia

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    Caxton, William, c. 1422-1491; Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366; Comper, Frances M. M; Congreve, George, 1836-, The book of the craft of dying, and other early English tracts concerning death. London, 1917. Dugdale, Lydia. Dying in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well (MIT Press, 2015).

  3. Death and the Miser - Wikipedia

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    Death and the Miser belongs to the tradition of memento mori, a term that describes works of art that remind the viewer of the inevitability of death.The painting shows the influence of popular 15th-century handbooks (including text and woodcuts) on the "Art of Dying Well" (Ars moriendi), intended to help Christians choose Christ over earthly and sinful pleasures.

  4. Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the ...

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    The dying man readied his body and soul for death and waited. There were four general characteristics: first, the dying person would usually be lying in bed, or at least in a recumbent position. In the Christian tradition the dying person would lie on his or her back, facing the heavens. Second, the dying person in this period always presided ...

  5. Lost literary work - Wikipedia

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    All of his works are now lost. Some fragments exist, as well as titles and subjects of many of his books. Lost works of Proclus. A number of his commentaries on Plato are lost. Lost works of Pyrrhus. He wrote Memoirs and several books on the art of war, all now lost. According to Plutarch, Hannibal was influenced by them and they received ...

  6. Dying neurosurgeon pens heartbreaking memoir before his death

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    Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36 just before completing a decade of training as a neurosurgeon. In his heartbreaking and posthumous memoir, "When Breath ...

  7. Peter Fenwick (neuropsychologist) - Wikipedia

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    Fenwick and his wife are co-authors of The Art of Dying, a study of the spiritual needs of near-death patients. The Fenwicks argue that modern medical practices have devalued end-of-life experiences, and call for a more holistic approach to death and dying. [18] In 2003, Fenwick and Sam Parnia appeared in the BBC documentary "The Day I Died ...

  8. Nine stages of decay - Wikipedia

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    A surviving copy of this book is marked with a seal of a woman's name. [ 1 ] : 42 The nine stages of decay, and kusōzu in particular, have been described as a manifestation of the misogyny inherent to some schools of Buddhism, in which women are situated as mere objects of contemplation, reinforcing the belief that women have a lesser ability ...

  9. Philosophy of death - Wikipedia

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