Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... reject the emoluments and pres- tige of private practice or surgical specialities to undertake careers of obscure laboratory research that , only after exhausting years , may lead towards new cures for mankind - ravaging diseases . Such ...
... reject the emoluments and pres- tige of private practice or surgical specialities to undertake careers of obscure laboratory research that , only after exhausting years , may lead towards new cures for mankind - ravaging diseases . Such ...
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... reject the loneliness of his demise , whereas Bloy and Stuart might well , in their surroundings , retain some of the natural comforts of home during their last hours : home , relatives , friends . That is why thanatologists and others ...
... reject the loneliness of his demise , whereas Bloy and Stuart might well , in their surroundings , retain some of the natural comforts of home during their last hours : home , relatives , friends . That is why thanatologists and others ...
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... reject life but to preserve its dignity and the lives of others . In this connection it is significant , I think , that the Church no longer refuses hallowed burial to the so - called suicide . Suicide is not condoned . It is simply not ...
... reject life but to preserve its dignity and the lives of others . In this connection it is significant , I think , that the Church no longer refuses hallowed burial to the so - called suicide . Suicide is not condoned . It is simply not ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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