Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-558).
Contents
Epicurus -- Epictetus -- Lucretius -- Humanism -- Wittgenstein -- Existentialism and death: a critique of Tolstoy, Sartre, Heideggar -- Shakespear -- Emily Dickinson -- Dylan Thomas -- Psychiartry, Psychology, and Philosophical Psychology -- Freud -- Child's view of death -- Sociology of death -- Medical-psychological definition of death -- Abortion -- Religion -- John Donne -- Art of dying -- Death in art -- Psychic phenomena and death -- Mark Twain -- The funeral industry -- Critique of the criticisms of Mitford and Harmer -- Memorial Societies -- Historical theories of prolongation -- Biology of aging.