Speaking For The Dead

Author : Maja I Whitaker,Professor D Gareth Jones
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781409496465

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Speaking for the Dead by Maja I Whitaker,Professor D Gareth Jones Pdf

Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research. Fully revised and updated to include recent developments in this area, this new edition incorporates the repeated organ scandals in the UK, body parts scandals in the United States, and the abuses of bodies in China. The book provides new material on neuroimaging, neuroethics and Alzheimer's disease and the major ethical issues they raise for society, in addition to discussing plastination in the form of BodyWorlds types of exhibitions. As human anatomists and bioethicists, the authors offer a unique perspective on these issues, crossing the boundaries between clinical, medical, legal and ethical concerns. Their exploration of both historical and contemporary data results in a clear and comprehensive examination of issues at the forefront of bioethics. With its clear writing style and use of non-technical language Speaking for the Dead will be an essential book for all those interested in bioethics, an area which continues to increase in significance with the development of new techniques for the manipulation of human cadavers. As human anatomists and bioethicists, the authors offer a unique perspective on these issues, crossing the boundaries between clinical, medical, legal and ethical concerns. Their exploration of historical developments as well as their analyses of recent case studies result in a pertinent and comprehensive examination of issues at the forefront of bioethics.

Author : Chelsea L. Tolman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Funeral rites and ceremonies
ISBN : 1732948410

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Speaking of the Dead by Chelsea L. Tolman Pdf

In most Western and Westernized cultures, the reality of death is a subject that we avoid because it makes us uncomfortable. Even participants in religions that celebrate death as a release to a paradisiacal realm will avoid talking about or facing the death experience, unless it's through the lens of their religious beliefs. The rest of us tap dance around the subject, enjoying death-related fiction involving vampires, zombies, and serial killers, while we recoil in mind-numbing horror at the thought of being in the same room with a corpse. Chelsea Tolman is a funeral director, mortician, and embalmer with over 15 years experience. In her book, "Speaking of the Dead," she attempts to provide the balm that allows us to engage in the real world of death's circumstances and give us a peek behind the curtain at what it's like to be a professional in the death industry.This book is a collection of Chelsea's recounted stories that illustrate the unique perspective of being a professional in the death industry. She covers a wide range of emotions and circumstances from light hilarity to deep sadness and grief. She does well in not taking herself too seriously and is quick to share stories where she laughs about her own foibles and mistakes. Chelsea also takes the time to celebrate the diversity of cultures, describing in intimate detail the way some religions and nationalities treat their dead. All get equal respect, including the careful corpse wrappings of the Bha'i, the pronated wailing women of the Far East, the colorful dancers of Africa, suicides, and drug overdoses. She expertly weaves these stories of culture in with the experience of grief and loss to reveal how we all share the basic human essence of missing our dead.Finally, "Speaking of the Dead" serves as Chelsea's heartfelt attempt to show to the world that the experience of caring for one's dead is one that should be embraced and cherished, rather than avoided and feared as it largely is at present. She details the loving care she gives to the bodies and how she encourages the loved ones to participate and catalyze their own progress at closure. The tenderness she shows in wrapping infants in blankets, smoothing an old man's hair, or applying a young woman's make-up invites you to step over the gap from macabre avoidance to emotional acceptance and understand that death is simply another part of the human experience that we should all embrace.

Author : Sciens
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015707904

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How To Speak With The Dead; A Practical Handbook by Sciens Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Erik R. Seeman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812296419

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Speaking with the Dead in Early America by Erik R. Seeman Pdf

In late medieval Catholicism, mourners employed an array of practices to maintain connection with the deceased—most crucially, the belief in purgatory, a middle place between heaven and hell where souls could be helped by the actions of the living. In the early sixteenth century, the Reformation abolished purgatory, as its leaders did not want attention to the dead diminishing people's devotion to God. But while the Reformation was supposed to end communication between the living and dead, it turns out the result was in fact more complicated than historians have realized. In the three centuries after the Reformation, Protestants imagined continuing relationships with the dead, and the desire for these relations came to form an important—and since neglected—aspect of Protestant belief and practice. In Speaking with the Dead in Early America, historian Erik R. Seeman undertakes a 300-year history of Protestant communication with the dead. Seeman chronicles the story of Protestants' relationships with the deceased from Elizabethan England to puritan New England and then on through the American Enlightenment into the middle of the nineteenth century with the explosion of interest in Spiritualism. He brings together a wide range of sources to uncover the beliefs and practices of both ordinary people, especially women, and religious leaders. This prodigious research reveals how sermons, elegies, and epitaphs portrayed the dead as speaking or being spoken to, how ghost stories and Gothic fiction depicted a permeable boundary between this world and the next, and how parlor songs and funeral hymns encouraged singers to imagine communication with the dead. Speaking with the Dead in Early America thus boldly reinterprets Protestantism as a religion in which the dead played a central role.

Author : Konstantinos
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738717814

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Speak with the Dead by Konstantinos Pdf

Modern technology has given us powerful new tools for an age-old dream: seeing and speaking with the dead. Using things you probably already own - such as a camcorder, computer, or tape recorder - you can contact departed loved ones or other spirits, record their images and voices, and establish two-way communications between the worlds. Speak with the Dead also details the more traditional methods of seance, trance, and scrying. You don't have to be a "techie" or an occultist to use any of these techniques. This book will guide you to one of the most awe-inspiring experiences you'll ever have - making contact with deceased loved ones and other souls. Speak with the Dead is the first book in the modern marketplace to focus on practical, usable techniques for communicating with spirits. This book shows you seven methods for spirit contact: -catching Electronic Voice Phenomena on tape -using radio noise to provide spirits with a voice -capturing ghostly images on videotape -letting spirits use your computer or telephone -scrying, establishing telepathic contact with the dead, and holding a seance Speak with them. They're waiting.

Author : Rex Burns
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049985394

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Speak for the Dead by Rex Burns Pdf

Now working homicide, Wager lands a gruesome case in the botanic garden Homicide cops are always suspicious of the drug enforcement division, so when ex-narcotics detective Gabe Wager arrives on the murder squad, his first assignment is the graveyard shift. His new commanding officer hopes that the late shift will keep Wager out of trouble, and give him a chance to learn the byzantine regulations that govern murder investigations. But two days later, a call comes in just after dawn reporting a death at Denver’s botanic gardens. Wager could leave it for the morning shift, but he is hungry to prove himself, and legs it over to the scene of the horrid crime. The young woman’s head has been left inside the gardens, her body nowhere to be found. Without any way of identifying her, Wager is stuck without a lead. But when her torso surfaces in a junkyard, he begins the slow grind of finding the murderer who dismembered this once beautiful model.

Author : D. EDWARDS (Wesleyan Minister.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1770
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020771239

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A minister dead; yet speaking. Being the substance of two discourses [on Heb. xi. 4] preached Nov. 11, 1770, occasioned by the death of the Rev. G. Whitefield ... Second edition by D. EDWARDS (Wesleyan Minister.) Pdf

Author : Thomas Fuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : UOM:39015063049228

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Abel Redevivus, Or, The Dead Yet Speaking by Thomas Fuller Pdf

Author : Sciens
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0353363324

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How to Speak with the Dead; A Practical Handbook by Sciens Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Sciens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243699662

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How to Speak With the Dead by Sciens Pdf

Author : Rodger Ghost Sims
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524508487

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The Dead Speak by Rodger Ghost Sims Pdf

Between being possessed by an angry spirit and being accused of a brutal murder, Joey Stillman is in a fight for his life. He has no memory of the attack, but he remembers the bloody aftermath vividly. Since being arrested, he struggles with rage that seems to flow from his dreams and the patience and control required dealing with his trial. Help, for what it is worth, is on the way in the unlikely form of two elderly menone carrying a scrapbook and the other carrying an old brown backpack. Its time to let the dead speak.

Author : Caleb Wilde
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781506471624

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All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak by Caleb Wilde Pdf

What if our dead remain with us? What if closure is not the goal? No matter what you believe about the afterlife, what if the hereafter intersects with the here and now? Caleb Wilde, author of the acclaimed memoir Confessions of a Funeral Director, was a skeptic. The baffling stories people told him--deathbed visions of long-dead parents, visits from the other side--must be hallucinations or wishful thinking, he thought. But the more stories he heard, and the more he learned about non-Western understandings of body and spirit, the less sure he was. All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak takes readers on a lyrical and tender quest to encounter the hereafter. As Wilde picks up bodies, organizes funerals, and meets with grieving families in a small town in Pennsylvania, those who remain share with him--and us--what they experience in the thin places between life and death. Entwining these stories with his own as a sixth-generation funeral director, and with the findings of neuroscience and the solace of faith, Wilde creates a searching, reverent inquiry into all the ways our dead remain with us. In the process, he takes on prevailing dogmas about death: from a narrow Christian view of heaven and hell, to secular assumptions that death is the end, to pop-psychology maxims that say we all need "closure" after our loved ones die. The dead don't have to be buried twice, once in the ground and again in our hearts. In the pages of this unforgettable book, learn how love and memory and mystery fuse this world to the next.

Author : Dayton Foster
Publisher : Author House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781481759823

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The Dead Do Speak To Us... by Dayton Foster Pdf

Photographs of tombs in the Americans and Western Europe with transcriptions of their epitaphs along with quotations from 333 famous people worldwide on life and death.

Author : John Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503524137

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Address to the clergy, and Skepticism and divine revelation by John Ellis Pdf

Author : George Englebretsen
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Published for the Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy by Dalhousie University Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Identity (Philosophical concept)
ISBN : UCAL:B3363485

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Speaking of Persons by George Englebretsen Pdf