Death's place in our lives ; Defining death ; Death, illusion, and meaning ; Is it rational to fear death ; Understanding and coping with grief ; Death rituals and the corpse -- American death rituals ; Approaches to dying well ; Judaism on death and the afterlife ; Death and hope in Christianity ; Islam on returning to God ; Death, rebirth, and liberation in Hinduism -- Buddhism on impermanence and mindfulness ; The process of dying in Tibetan Buddhism ; Confucian remembrance, Daoist forgetting ; Death and syncretism in China ; Suicide examined -- The choice of euthanasia -- Killing in war and the pacifist challenge ; Considering capital punishment ; Killing non-human animals ; Near-death experiences ; The pursuit of immortality ; The value of death.
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