The Hour of Our Death

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Knopf, 1981 - Family & Relationships - 651 pages
This remarkable book -- the fruit of almost two decades of study -- traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing a virtual redefinition of human nature. -- Provided by publisher.

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The Tame Death
5
Place of Burial
29
The Final Reckoning
95
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