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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. Global strategies
  3. Studying death

Studying death

  • Emphasizing death
  • Investigating aspects of dying
  • Focusing on death
  • Thanatology

Broader

Studying
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Researching diseases
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Focusing
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Narrower

Researching sudden unexpected infant death
Excellent
Studying the afterlife
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Safeguarding rights of those faced with the death penalty
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Ensuring a proper death
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Determining cause of death
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Commemorating death
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Constrained by

Relaxing morbid preoccupation with death
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Facilitated by

Researching ageing
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Fearing death
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Problem

Dehumanization of death
Excellent

Value

Death
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Reference

Ushabudha Arya: Meditation and the Art of Dying
Feifel, Herman: New Meanings of Death
Kamerman, Jack B: Death in the Midst of Life
Day, Stacey B: Cancer, Stress, and Death
Austin, Mary: Experiences Facing Death
Charnaz, Kathlene C: The Social Reality of Death
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth: Death: the final stage of growth
Sheridan, Lilian B: Death: index of modern information
Humphreys, S C and King, H: Mortality and Immortality: the anthropology and archaeology of death
Vasileios, Archimandrite: Dying and Behold We Live
Doka, Kenneth J and Morgan, John D: Death and Spirituality
Barrett, William: Death of the Soul

Web link

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-beingSustainable Development Goal #4: Quality Education

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(E) Emanations of other strategies
Subject
Content quality
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Language
English
Last update
Mar 2, 2020