In the nineteenth century, biologists disagreed on the metaphysical implications of Darwinism. For example, Wallace did not believe that natural selection could explain the development of the human mind, although most others, including Darwin, held...

Death [addendum] In recent decades death has garnered considerable philosophical attention in three principal areas: medical ethics, value theory, and metaphysics. In medical ethics, interest has centered on determining the criterion of death. The most...

A good death honors a long life. (Spanish) A good man looks upon death as a returning. (Chinese) A man comes from the dust and in the dust he will end – and in the meantime it is good to drink a sip of vodka. (Yiddish) After death no pleasure...

Death is the cessation of life. It involves a complete change in an organism and occurs on various levels, including somatic death, organ death, cellular death, and organelle death. Somatic death refers to the death of a whole organism. It is typically...

Death is the end of the life of a biological organism. Death may refer to the end of life as either an event or condition.[1] Many factors can cause or contribute to an organism's death, including predation, disease, habitat destruction, senescence,...

KINGSLEY DAVIS Sociologist and Demographer Kingsley Davis, 88, a sociologist and demographics expert who campaigned for zero population growth, died Feb. 27 in Stanford, Calif. He had Parkinson's disease. Dr. Davis, a former Stanford University senior research fellow, argued in 1945 that...

PierrepointRunning time 90 minutes Directed by Adrian Shergold Written by Bob Mills and Jeff Pope Adrian Shergold’s Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, from a screenplay by Jeff Pope and Bob Mills, provides the strongest cinematic statement against capital punishment I have ever seen, but I doubt...

Serious problems in state death penalty systems compromise fairness and accuracy in capital punishment cases and justify a nationwide freeze on executions, the American Bar Association says.Problems cited in a report released Sunday by the lawyers' organization include:_Spotty collection and preservation of DNA evidence, which...

Summary results of Associated Press-Ipsos polls in nine countries on public attitudes about the death penalty and Osama bin Laden.The AP polls were conducted by Ipsos, an international polling firm, in Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, Spain and the United States. Of...

In the following essay, Kurtz examines the many varied attitudes towards death that Percy Bysshe Shelley expressed in his poetry and traces the influences that led to the development of these attitudes.

In the following excerpt, Simonds and Rothman explore the various ways in which mothers expressed their grief at the death of a child in the context of nineteenth-century American culture.

In the following essay, LeClair discovers continuities in the presentation of death in the works of such black humor writers as J. P. Donleavy, Joseph Heller, John Barth, John Hawkes, Walker Percy, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Thomas Pynchon; he additionally studies the sociological implications of these author's comical representations of death.

“Our society regularly looks to technology to solve perennial human problems. Such problems as suffering and death are ones that we cannot solve, however; we can only cope with them.” —Caroline Whitbeck A February 1997 Los Angeles...

“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.” —Francis, duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 26 Each year, over 32,000 people commit suicide in the United States. In Oregon in 1997, 15 terminally ill patients took...

This essay considers the religious aspects of life and death. Provides a Christian perspective. Argues that death is not something to be feared.

This paper explains the different psychological and social effects that occur as the result of the death of a child.

Comparison and Contrast How Death Effects Lives of Men and Women based on the short story, "Home Burial" by Robert Frost.