“Is death necessary?“, asked biologist G. R. Taylor and stated that in 1968 in the USA alone more than a thousand teams of scientists were working on the issue of growing old and the problem of death. Some people are frozen at their death. They want to be revived as soon as a cure for their disease or the aging process has been found. Most of humanity seems to have the desire to live forever. M...

“Get lost!” or “I think you should leave now” or “Ok, perhaps I’ll see you around some other time”, humans seem to be expressing things differently in different situations based on various factors: Social relationship between the two people, urgency of an action, their personality, etc. Social interaction of synthetic agents appears believable when it has at least some characteristics of human-...

OBJECTIVE To understand how elderly patients think about and approach future illness and the end of life. DESIGN Qualitative study conducted 1997-9. SETTING Physician housecall programme affiliated to US university. PARTICIPANTS 20 chronically ill housebound patients aged over 75 years who could participate in an interview. Participants identified through purposive and random sampling. ...

Onatsu Sosei Monogatari おなつ蘇甦物語, the “Story of Onatsu’s resurrection,” was written in middle Edo period to convert people Jōdo Shinshū. Onatsu, who had become a faithful follower this doctrine, died and revived following day. After her revival, she talked about visit Pure Land during death experience. Today, for unknown reasons, several prints various manuscripts story exist. In study, I clarif...

Four-dimensionalists think that we persist over time by having different temporal parts at each of the times which exist. Eternalists all are equally real. Deprivationists death is an evil for one who dies because it deprives them something. I argue four-dimensionalist eternalism, conjoined with a standard deprivationist account death, has surprising implications what should about death. In par...

as an important event, each war has a lasting effect on people's life and language for decades. some war consequences are in direct relation with end result (winning or losing) of the war and some others are the aftermath of the war itself. this essay discusses two points about the period following the war, considering iran-iraq war. first, death becomes a routine. it will be internalized ...