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Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross who has devoted her life to the study of death and dying, has done much to de-stigmatize dying and to draw attention to the treatment of the terminally ill. Now she lives in seclusion in the Arizona desert, on the verge of the transition she researched so passionately. Conversations with Elisabeth form the core of the film as she looks back on her life, describes her childhood and her work and explains how she herself faces...
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Based on the 1985 hijacking by Palestinian terrorists of the Mediterranean cruise ship Achille Lauro. Award-winning British film-maker Penny Woolcock, working with the composer, ingeniously reworked the original, using techniques afforded by film to imbue the narrative with realism. While the main action is shot on location in the Mediterranean, actual and recreated archive footage tells the broader story of the characters before and after the hijacking....
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"A cross-cultural study of how religious practices--particular attitudes toward the dead seen in funerary rites, mortuary practices, and pilgrimage patterns-- have influenced the formation of cultural identity and social structures throughout world history"--Provided by the publisher.
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Two of the youngest men on death row in Texas face execution day. Victim Nikki Daniels reflects on her kidnapping ordeal by murderer Richard Cobb. The mother of death row inmate Anthony Haynes fights to use the final 72 hours to halt her son's execution for the murder of an off-duty police officer. This three part series tells the story of capital punishment through the eyes of the young people whose lives were shaped by violent experiences.
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Counter Begun in 1994, The Atlanta Study is the first comprehensive investigation of its kind into near-death experiences (NDEs). The study's name hardly captures what lies behind it: life-and-death dramas played out in operating rooms and hospital beds--and simultaneous events unseen by medical personnel but reported with astonishing clarity and conviction by nearly 50 individuals who returned from death's door. Now the founder of The Atlanta Study,...
10) Beyond Death
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What happens to us after we die? Where do we go? Is there any part of us that lives on? In the premiere episode of "The Story of God," Morgan Freeman sets out to understand humanity's obsession with the afterlife. He speaks to David Bennett, a man who died and came back to talk about it; Sam Parnia, a physician who is convinced something survives our physical bodies after death; archaeologist Jodi Magness, who reveals how one man's death granted humanity...
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From alchemy to near-death experiences and from Gilgamesh to the collective unconscious, readers will find objective and sensitive information on this ever-fascinating and elusive topic. The Death and Afterlife Book considers the evidence and relates thousands of years of belief and understanding on a topic that's inevitably of great interest to us all.
13) Death speaks
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Death Speaks, a song cycle by David Lang inspired by the songs of Schubert in which Death features as a 'flesh and blood' character who often speaks, rather than a faceless metaphor.
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Funerals are the most common death rituals in the world, but there are other ceremonies that involve the dead, often with very different purposes. For the Aghori mystics of India, the corpse isn't something to be avoided, but rather embraced. This program examines the ways in which cultures both foreign and familiar confront the ultimate taboo. From the practice of exhuming the bones of ancestors in Taiwan to that of embalming the deceased in the...
16) Death & beyond
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"Andrew Greeley confronts death boldly in the context of life both before and after its ever-threatening fact. He never questions death's reality but he demolishes its consequences. Armed with enduring human and Christian hope, he insists: 'We can look forward to both continuity and discontinuity; continuity of life but extraordinary transformation of the quality, the intensity, the richness, the splendor of life. It sounds like quite a show.' Says...
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Studies the capital sentencing patterns in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Oklahoma, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia and Arkansas for the years 1976 through 1980. Suggests that, in the aftermath of Furman v. Georgia, various state efforts to improve the evenhandedness of the capital punishment system still need improvements and just alternatives.
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At his memorable lecture before the Berlin Physiological Society on March 14, 1882, Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the tubercle bacillus as the cause of tuberculosis. This program traces the history of the disease as well as the successes and failures of a man whose legacy has impacted microbiology and infectious diseases to this day. The optimism in 1982 that tuberculosis would be eradicated by 2010 is no closer to reality than Koch's...
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"Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a report by an ad hoc committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968. It also remains a focus of controversy and debate, an early source of criticism and scrutiny of the bioethics movement. Death before dying: history, medicine, and brain death looks at the work of the Committee in a way that has not...
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