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Western Traditions in Dealing with Death

This essay discusses various views and fears associated with death in Western societies. The author addresses funeral rituals as ...

Willard Gaylin's 'Harvesting the Dead'

In two pages this article is reviewed in a consideration of the author's exploration of medically assisting individuals by utilizi...

The Dead Who Refuse to Die in The Hunter Gracchus by Franz Kafka and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

(Silverman, 76). In a surprisingly large number of Poes stories, the revenant theme is coupled with some sense of a double -- two...

Fictitious Description of the Black Plague

In five pages this paper presents a fictitious portrayal of a dying artisan during the Medieval Black Plague era. Four sources ar...

Transcendentalist Emily Dickinson

her mid-twenties Dickinson was on her way to becoming a total recluse. Although she did not discourage visitors, she literally nev...

Dying, Death, and Bereavement Essays

In ten pages brief essays considering dying, death, and bereavement are presented in a consideration of terminal illness and child...

Islamic and Hindu Religions on Death and Dying

In eight pages the ways these religions deal with dying and death through ritual and corpse disposition are compared and contraste...

Reclusive Emily Dickinson

of struggling against it. For example, the "gentleman caller" in "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" -- who is clearly intended...

US and an Individual's 'Right to Die'

In seven pages this paper presents the argument that all individuals regardless of whether or not they are suffering from a deadly...

Real Life Reflected in Gus Van Sant's 1995 Film To Die For

the story that was adapted by Buck Henry from Joyce Maynard s 1992 novel. "To Die For" tells the story of would-be newscaster Suz...

Death and Coping

In six pages the role of nurses in the patient process of dying is considered in two scenario types that also involves caring for ...

3 Operas Inspired by The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

the open air seems odd. And yet, the opera version gave Falstaff a swagger and an attitude that one suspects was close to the t...

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

war, he also lost the only woman who ever loved him. Fuentes has him pay for his greed and love of power in that all of the subseq...

Patient's 'Right to Die' and the Legality of Nursing Responsibility

through the administration of pain medication. It is not to end that suffering through medically-induced suicide. In fact, the C...

'Right to Die' Issue as it Pertains to Texas

In ten pages Texas laws are examined as they pertain to issues involving the 'right to die' with medical consent, living wills, an...

'Right to Die' Case of Nancy Cruzan and the U.S. Government

In a report consisting of five pages former Attorney General and Edwin Meese and late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan a...

Emily Dickinson's Poetry and Themes of Nature and Death

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the poet's views of nature and death are represented in such poems as 'Twas jus...

Emily Dickinson's Views on Death Expressed in Her Poetry

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Emily Dickinson's contention that one should live life to the fullest and not be constrained by f...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I heard a Fly buzz…'

"Heaves of Storms" in the last line of the first stanza is a metaphor that conjures the image of violent storms, but also suggests...

Granny's Last Days in 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' by Katherine Anne Porter

In 5 pages this paper examines how the protagonist planned to die with dignity in Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 short story. There...

Dying and Death in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann von Goethe and The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

These works are considered in five pages in terms of the protagonist's perceptions of dying and death in a contrast and comparison...

Devastation Associated with 'The Great Dying'

such mortality, postulating that death - in all its ominous forms - is truly nothing to ones existence but a component of rebirth....

Voluntary and Involuntary Euthanasia

it is right to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives, or to assist such patients to commit suicide, will continue despi...

Poe's Obsession with Beautiful Young Women Dying and the Influence of His Wife's Premature Death

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

Human Spirit, the Holocaust, and Racism

In ten pages the Holocaust is examined in a discussion of racism and the human spirit's perseverance as depicted in Elie Wiesel's ...

Prison Inmates and Ethics

its professionals values to be a "cut above" its own. In terms of the prison environment, we know that our current United State...

'Before the Birth of One of Her Children' by Anne Bradshaw

a considerable bond of love between Bradstreet and her husband. It is because of this bond that when she mentions the possibility...

John Harding's Article 'Is There A Duty To Die?'

In 5 pages this paper discusses the right to die within the context of the medical community. There is 1 source cited in the bibl...

Hearsay Rule and Declarations of the Dying

In twenty pages dying exceptions to the hearsay rule are discussed with definitions and conditions of admissibility considered. E...

Characterization of Addie Bundren in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

In five pages this paper examines the impact of Addie's death at the beginning of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying to present the...