Author: John S. Dunne
Publisher:
ISBN: 0859690202
Category: Death
Page: 243
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City of the Gods
The City of the Gods
In The City of the Gods, John S. Dunne traces humanity's political and social mythologies from ancient Sumer to the present, showing how they reflect the diverse responses of each era to the inevitability of death.
Author: John S. Dunne
Publisher:
ISBN: 0268007268
Category: Religion
Page: 243
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In The City of the Gods, John S. Dunne traces humanity's political and social mythologies from ancient Sumer to the present, showing how they reflect the diverse responses of each era to the inevitability of death.Myth and mortality
Getting Old Well Maybe Just a Little
These questions are answered by the 92-year-old Harlan Carl Scheffler, who reflected on them in two essays written just before he passed away in April 2014.
Author: Harlan Carl Scheffler
Publisher: George Ronald
ISBN: 0853985847
Category: Self-Help
Page: 78
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What is it like to get old, then older, and move into a nursing home or care facility? What is happening to us as we face idle times and experience the need for special and determinate care? What happens next? Is life immortal? Although much has been written about the aging process, little has been written by one who is actually experiencing the process of dying. These questions are answered by the 92-year-old Harlan Carl Scheffler, who reflected on them in two essays written just before he passed away in April 2014. In his first essay Scheffler takes a humorous look at the interval between becoming aged and dying, a time, he says, that can be most rewarding. It is time when we can review our own lives and can learn what others have experienced through their span of years - and it can be most enjoyable and enlightening to family and friends. His second essay examines the evidence for life's immortality; it is treated as the natural adjunct, the extension and expansion of the initial phase of our lives, not the end. Surprisingly, he discovers that employing the light shed by today's technologies, we are assured that death truly is impossible.Deciphering a Hero
Myth and Mortality
The author works through thirty-two different beliefs or metaphors dealing with death, and how helpful they may be.
Author: Harry Willson
Publisher: Amador Publishers
ISBN: 0938513397
Category: Bereavement
Page: 216
View: 282
The author works through thirty-two different beliefs or metaphors dealing with death, and how helpful they may be.The Myth of Methuselah and the Uncertainty of Death
This paper uses mortality fan charts to illustrate prospective future male mortality.
Author: Kevin Dowd
Publisher:
ISBN: OCLC:1290274630
Category:
Page: 16
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This paper uses mortality fan charts to illustrate prospective future male mortality. These fan charts show both the most likely path of male mortality and the bands of uncertainty surrounding that path. The fan charts are based on a model of male mortality that is known to provide a good fit to recent UK mortality data. The fan charts suggest that there are clear limits to longevity, that future mortality rates are very uncertain and tend to become more uncertain the further ahead the forecast, and that forecasts of future mortality uncertainty must take account of uncertainty in the parameters of the underlying mortality model.Keith Vaughan
Author: Gordon Samuel
Publisher:
ISBN: 1999729374
Category:
Page: 118
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John Keith Vaughan (23 August 1912 4 November 1977) was a British painter.0Born in Selsey, Vaughan attended Christ?s Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the war, when as an intending conscientious objector he joined the St John?s Ambulance; in 1941 he was conscripted into the Non-Combatant Corps. Vaughan was self-taught as an artist. His first exhibitions took place during the war. In 1942 he was stationed at Ashton Gifford near Codford in Wiltshire, and paintings from this time include 'The Wall at Ashton Gifford' (Manchester Art Gallery).00Exhibition: Osborne Samuel Gallery, London, UK (05.06-12.07.2019).Mortality Salience Women in Power and Rape Myth Acceptance
The goal of the present study is to use Terror Management Theory (TMT) as a vehicle for understanding rape myth acceptance.
Author: Nicolette R. Halvorson
Publisher:
ISBN: OCLC:960049307
Category:
Page: 82
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The goal of the present study is to use Terror Management Theory (TMT) as a vehicle for understanding rape myth acceptance. Terror management posits that knowledge of one’s mortality can create overwhelming terror. However, cultural worldviews are one mechanism humans use to protect against this terror. I argue that gender beliefs are a powerful worldview US society, and that being primed with an individual who does not adhere to our expectations will create discomfort, especially if one is reminded of their mortality. Therefore, when people are primed to think of their own death and exposed to a woman who violates gender norms, they should be more likely to have hostile reactions to a victim of sexual assault. One hundred and forty participants were recruit ed from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and the University of Colorado, Denver. Participants were randomly assigned to be prime d with a control or death reminder. Next they were primed with one of three women, two of which violated gender norms. Participants were then asked to read a rape script and respond to a survey to assess their level of rape myth acceptance. A preliminary analysis of the results examined gender, MS, and woman prime in a 2 x 2 x 3 ANOVA. A significant effect for gender wa s found ( p = 0.04), indicating that men have higher levels of rape myth acceptance. The primary analysis of Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), MS, and woman prime was conducted with a hierarchical multiple regression. A significant effect for RWA was found ( p