A History of Human Responses to Death

A History of Human Responses to Death

Mythologies, Rituals, and Ethics

by Plinio Prioreschi

508 pages· 1990· ISBN 9780889461260
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This study examines death and its impact on human thinking from a biological and historical viewpoint. It finds that fear of death is the motive behind the human need to accomplish anything. It also discusses care of the terminally ill, mercy killing, suicide, and the death penalty.

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