Rethinking mortality
Subtitle: exploring the boundaries between life and death
By: [New York Academy of Sciences]
Contributors: Nour Foundation
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- volume 1330; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- v. 1330.
Publisher: Published on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences by Wiley Subscription Services
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Death; Death (Biology); Near-death experiences
Other titles: Exploring the boundaries between life and death
Notes: Based on a series of discussions sponsored by the Nour Foundation partnering with the New York Academy of Sciences.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword to Rethinking mortality : exploring the boundaries between life and death / Richard Rass; title: Rethinking mortality : exploring the boundaries between life and death / Steve Paulson; title: Reversing death : the miracle of modern medicine / Steven Paulson [and three others]; title: Prolonging life : legal, ethical, and social dilemmas / Steve Paulson [and four others]; title: Experiencing death : an insider's perspective / Steven Paulson [and four others]; title: Confronting mortality : faith and meaning across cultures / Steve Paulson [and three others]; title: Death and consciousness : an overview of the mental and cognitive experience of death / Sam Parnia; title: Oregon's experience with aid in dying : findings from the death with dignity laboratory / Barbara Coombs Lee; title: Life, death, and the bridges in-between / Sam D. Shemie; title: Modern dying : from securing rights to meeting needs / Mildred Z. Solomon; title: Near-death experience : arising from the borderlands of consciousness in crisis / Kevin R. Nelson; title: Erratum for Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1327: 62-78; title: Corrigendum for Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1110: 497-506.