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• catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11357198.
• catalog created "c2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "c2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
• catalog 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."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "I: Thinking about dying : twelve classic visions. The certainty of death / George Herbert ("Mortification") -- The figure of death (from the Katha-Upanishad) -- The romance of death / Charles Dickens (from Dombey and Son) -- Where are the snows of yesteryear? / Manuel Bandeira ("Profundamente") -- In the midst of life we are in death / John Donne (from Devotions upon emergent occasions) -- The morality of death / Flannery O'Connor ("A good man is hard to find") -- Death in war / William Shakespeare (from Henry V) ; Wilfred Owen ("Anthem for doomed youth") -- Acceptance beyond fear / Montaigne ("To philosophize is to learn to die") -- Eat, drink, and be merry / Edward FitzGerald (from The rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) -- Fate as the will of God (from the Quran) -- The phenomenon of hope / Dietrich von Hildebrand (from Jaws of death, gate of heaven) -- The irreplaceable dead / Dylan Thomas ("A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London") -- II: When we die. The experience of death / Leo Tolstoy (from The death of Ivan Ilych) -- The ease of death / Ernest Sandeen ("Do not go gentle") -- The testimony of the dying / Carol Zaleski (from The life of the world to come) -- Choosing suicide / A. Alvarez (from The savage god) -- Choosing to live / Gilbert Meilaender ("I want to burden my loved ones") -- Hastening death / Jeffrey E. Ford ("Mercy killing at Golgotha") -- Holding still for death / Christian de Chergé ("Last testament") -- III: When others die. The experience of grief / C.S. Lewis (from A grief observed) -- Burying the dead / Ralph Abernathy (from And the walls came tumbling down) -- Dying alone / Alane Salierno Mason ("Reconciliation of unbelief") -- Watching others die / Peter De Vries (from The blood of the lamb) -- The uses of ritual / Milton Himmelfarb ("Going to shul") -- Refusing consolation / Jody Bottum ("All that lives must die") -- The life of the world to come (from The book of common prayer).".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 181 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Eternal pity.".
• catalog identifier "0268027560 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0268027579 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Eternal pity.".
• catalog isPartOf "The ethics of everyday life".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "c2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press,".
• catalog relation "Eternal pity.".
• catalog subject "128/.5 21".
• catalog subject "BD444 .E84 2000".
• catalog subject "Death.".
• catalog tableOfContents "I: Thinking about dying : twelve classic visions. The certainty of death / George Herbert ("Mortification") -- The figure of death (from the Katha-Upanishad) -- The romance of death / Charles Dickens (from Dombey and Son) -- Where are the snows of yesteryear? / Manuel Bandeira ("Profundamente") -- In the midst of life we are in death / John Donne (from Devotions upon emergent occasions) -- The morality of death / Flannery O'Connor ("A good man is hard to find") -- Death in war / William Shakespeare (from Henry V) ; Wilfred Owen ("Anthem for doomed youth") -- Acceptance beyond fear / Montaigne ("To philosophize is to learn to die") -- Eat, drink, and be merry / Edward FitzGerald (from The rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) -- Fate as the will of God (from the Quran) -- The phenomenon of hope / Dietrich von Hildebrand (from Jaws of death, gate of heaven) -- The irreplaceable dead / Dylan Thomas ("A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London") -- II: When we die. The experience of death / Leo Tolstoy (from The death of Ivan Ilych) -- The ease of death / Ernest Sandeen ("Do not go gentle") -- The testimony of the dying / Carol Zaleski (from The life of the world to come) -- Choosing suicide / A. Alvarez (from The savage god) -- Choosing to live / Gilbert Meilaender ("I want to burden my loved ones") -- Hastening death / Jeffrey E. Ford ("Mercy killing at Golgotha") -- Holding still for death / Christian de Chergé ("Last testament") -- III: When others die. The experience of grief / C.S. Lewis (from A grief observed) -- Burying the dead / Ralph Abernathy (from And the walls came tumbling down) -- Dying alone / Alane Salierno Mason ("Reconciliation of unbelief") -- Watching others die / Peter De Vries (from The blood of the lamb) -- The uses of ritual / Milton Himmelfarb ("Going to shul") -- Refusing consolation / Jody Bottum ("All that lives must die") -- The life of the world to come (from The book of common prayer).".
• catalog title "The eternal pity : reflections on dying / edited by Richard John Neuhaus.".
• catalog type "Anthologie. swd".
• catalog type "Quelle. swd".
• catalog type "text".