The eternal pity
Subtitle: reflections on dying
By: edited by Richard John Neuhaus.
Contributors: Neuhaus, Richard John.
Series: The ethics of everyday life
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Death.
Description: "Drawing upon a vast range of human experience and reflection, The Eternal Pity: Reflections on Dying demonstrates how people try to cope with the inevitability of death. Different cultures, informed by religious beliefs and sometimes desperate hope, teach people to respond to their own death and the deaths of others in modes as various as defiance, stoic resignation, and unbridled grief.

In addition to examples from literature, poetry, and religious texts, Father Richard John Neuhaus provides an intensely personal account of his encounter with death through emergency cancer surgery and reflects on how that encounter has changed the way he lives."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-181).