Confronting death
Subtitle: college students on the community of mortals
By: Alfred G. Killilea and Dylan D. Lynch
Contributors: Lynch, Dylan D.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781475969771; 9781475969795
Subjects: Thanatology; Death
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: I. Death in contemporary literature: 1. Kurt Vonnegut on death / Dylan Lynch; title: 2. Christopher Hitchens and death / Danielle Dirocco; title: II. Death in classic literature: 3. Politics and death in the Divine Comedy / Andrew Karanikolis; title: 4. Peter Pan: Aging, death and immortality / Samantha Pettey; title: III. Terrorism and the call to die: 5. The duty of death / Elizabeth Toppi; title: 6. Palestinian suicide bombers / Christopher Turco; title: IV. The loss of innocence and of life: 7. Sub-Saharan African child soldiers' views concerning human mortality / Margaret Frost; title: 8. African child soldiers on life and death / Alexander Colantonio; title: 9. Blood out: Nihilism in gang culture / Ilana Coenen; title: V. Death in Nazism and Fascism: 10. Death through the eyes of the Nazi Schutzstaffel / Morgan Zubof; title: 11. Mussolini on death / Eli Roth; title: VI. Suicide: When life is more fearsome than death: 12. Suicide in Japan / Anastasia O'Keefe; title: 13. Suicidology; title: A philosophy / Shelby Sullivan-Bennis; title: VII. Death flexing its muscles: 14. Understanding the Black Death and mortality / Max Cantor; title: 15. The evolution of the reaper / Daniel Magill; title: 16. Chaplains on death row / Liana Goff; title: VIII. The excitement of living near death: 17. Facing death at the top of the world / Peter Zubof; title: 18. Jane Goodall: The peace of the forest in a deforested world / Ashley Stoehr.