Why Do We Die?
Subtitle: An essay in thanatology.
Publisher: London, K. Paul [Trench, Trubner & Co.]; [New York], [E.P. Dutton & Co.]
Published: 1919
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: PART I; title: THE PROBLEM; title: I FEAR AND KNOWLEDGE 3; title: II SYMBOLISM 13; title: III CAUSES OF THE FEAR OF DEATH 22; title: IV THE SENSATION OF DYING 31; title: V FUGA MORTIS 37; title: VI PRIMITIVE CONCEPTIONS 44; title: VII DEATH AND THE PHILOSOPHERS 50; title: PART II; title: WHAT SCIENCE TEACHES; title: I VARIOUS KINDS OF DEATH 63; title: II SENESCENCE 72; title: III WHAT FIXES THE TERM OF LIFE? 79; title: IV EFFECTS OF GROWTH AND COMPLEXITY 89; title: V WHAT REMAINS? 96; title: VI THE SPIRITUAL BODY 104; title: PART III; title: MONADOLOGT; title: CHAPTER PAGE; title: I THE ORGANISM AS A COMPLEX UNITY 113; title: II THE INDIVIDUAL CENTRES 122; title: III THE INDEPENDENCE OF CELLS 136; title: IV MONADS 143; title: V MONADS AND DEATH 149; title: VI THE PURPOSE OF ORGANIC DEVELOPMENT 157; title: PART IV; title: HIGHER ASPECTS; title: I FURTHER QUESTIONINGS 167; title: II FINITUDE AND CHANGE 170; title: III MORAL ASPECTS 177; title: IV VOLUNTARY DEATH 185; title: V DEATH AS A REVEALER 194