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| Introduction | |
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| Thinking about Dying: Twelve Classic Visions | |
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| The Certainty of Death (George Herbert, "Mortification") | |
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| The Figure of Death (The Katha-Upanishad) | |
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| The Romance of Death (Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son) | |
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| Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear? (Manuel Bandeira, "Profundamente") | |
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| In the Midst of Life We Are in Death (John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions) | |
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| The Morality of Death (Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find") | |
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| Death in War (William Shakespeare, Henry V, and Wilfred Owen, "Anthem for Doomed Youth") | |
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| Acceptance beyond Fear (Montaigne, "To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die") | |
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| Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Edward FitzGerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) | |
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| Fate as the Will of God (The Quran) | |
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| The Phenomenon of Hope (Dietrich von Hildebrand, Jaws of Death, Gate of Heaven) | |
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| The Irreplaceable Dead (Dylan Thomas, "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London") | |
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| When We Die | |
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| The Experience of Death (Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych) | |
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| The Ease of Death (Ernest Sandeen, "Do Not Go Gentle") | |
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| The Testimony of the Dying (Carol Zaleski, The Life of the World to Come) | |
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| Choosing Suicide (A. Alvarez, The Savage God) | |
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| Choosing to Live (Gilbert Meilaender, "I Want to Burden My Loved Ones") | |
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| Hastening Death (Jeffrey E. Ford, "Mercy Killing at Golgotha") | |
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| Holding Still for Death (Christian de Cherge, "Last Testament") | |
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| When Others Die | |
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| The Experience of Grief (C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed) | |
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| Burying the Dead (Ralph Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down) | |
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| Dying Alone (Alane Salierno Mason, "Reconciliation of Unbelief") | |
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| Watching Others Die (Peter De Vries, The Blood of the Lamb) | |
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| The Uses of Ritual (Milton Himmelfarb, "Going to Shul") | |
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| Refusing Consolation (Jody Bottum, "All That Lives Must Die") | |
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| The Life of the World to Come (The Book of Common Prayer) | |
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| Sources and Credits | |