Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
Author | : Shane McCorristine |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2017-09-19 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781137583284 |
ISBN-13 | : 1137583282 |
Rating | : 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Download or read book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings written by Shane McCorristine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the legal concept of brain death. In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how do we know if someone is dead or not? What do people experience at the moment when they die? Is death simply a biological event that comes about in temporal stages of decomposition, or is it a social event defined through cultures, practices, and commemorations? In other words, when exactly is death? Taken together, these contributions explore how death emerges in a series of stages that are uncertain, paradoxical, and socially contested.