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Title
Death
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Béliveau, Richard, 1953- (Contributor)
Gingras, Denis (Contributor)
Sandilands, Barbara (Contributor)
Subject
Death (Biology) (LCSH)
Life (Biology) (LCSH)
Death--Quotations, maxims, etc. (LCSH)
Death--Pictorial works (LCSH)
Language
English
English
Frenchoriginal
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Classification
LCC: QH530 .B4513 2012
LCC: QH530 B4413 2012
DDC: 571.9/39 full
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Note
Includes translation
Summary
A comprehensive examination of that inevitable and universal human experience. To better our understanding of death--and so perhaps fear it less--the book explains the biological processes and the different causes of death, and examines the human perceptions of death throughout history and across cultures.
Table Of Contents
A material soul
Dying
That's life!
Living with the awareness of death: between hope and fear
The wear and tear of time
Dying little by little
Dying from infections
Poisons: fascination and danger
Violent deaths
Unusual and dramatic deaths
Postmortem events
Dying of laughter.
Authorized Access Point
Béliveau, Richard, 1953- Death
Admin Metadata
Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Status: changed
Encoding Level: minimal
Description Conventions: Anglo-American cataloguing rules
Identified By: bf:Local, 17548667 bf:Local, 20129007781 bf:Local, 015995933
Change Date: 2014-03-26T09:02:22
Creation Date: 2012-12-04
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
Description Authentication:
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