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Laokoon and How the Ancients Represented Death
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The Meaning of Death
The Meaning of Death
If death is the cessation of life, then, as a concept, it draws its meaning from the preceding life. While death and dying are inextricably connected, dying is still a part of life...
Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998
Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998
Using a historical framework, this book offers not only the penal history of the death penalty in the states that have given women the death penalty, but it also retells the storie...
Online Afterlives
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How digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationship to death.
Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with co...
A Cultural History Of Death In The Renaissance
A Cultural History Of Death In The Renaissance
The movement from the Renaissance to the early modern period may have been one of the most tumultuous times in the history of the western world. Everything, sacred and profane, was...
Against the Death Penalty
Against the Death Penalty
A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty.
Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? InAgainst the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen Bre...