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Bianco, Simone. "Living the death: death attitudes and representations after a near-death experience." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3422272.

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Over the last 40 years, since Moody’s (1975) seminal work, Near Death experiences (NDEs) have been being at the centre of several academic investigations in in psychology, philosophy and medicine, and the debate on its nature is still in progress (Agrillo, 2011). This topic widely extends the scientists’ and philosophers’ reflections on the relationship between mind and brain, life and death, as well as the entire ontological question (Moody, 1975; Rousseau, 2011; Fenwick 2012). Until now, a number of authors tried to investigate and propose an interpretation of NDE. In existing literature, we observe a predominance of opinion articles, review articles, and papers, which describe NDE’s features. A recent work, that offers a review of the literature, highlights a lack of empirical studies that test explanatory hypotheses by using original data (Sleutjes et al., 2014). Direct studies of the phenomenon in lab, or at least in a controlled condition, are not possible, given the subjective and extraordinary nature of this experience (see paragraph 1.1 for an extensive description). Thus, the investigation of what NDE produces in people (e.g., memories of the experience or the so-called NDE aftereffects) could represent a more suitable way to explore NDE nature, since if we can assess objectively differences between people who had a NDE and people who had not, we could be able to derive indirectly information about NDE. In this study, we focus on a widely reported aftereffect, which is not still understood: NDErs’ loss or reduction of fear of death (Tassel-Matamua & Lindsay, 2016). In order to explore the processes underlining the loss of fear of death in people who had a NDE, we apply a mixed methodology, in which explicit and implicit measures are included. The general aim of this study is to investigate conscious and unconscious death anxiety and death representations in people who had a NDE, and to provide insights on the nature of this fascinating phenomenon. In the first chapter, the theoretical framework of the study is provided. NDE has been described as an intense phenomenon that leads to a variety of psychological and interpersonal aftereffects. In this section, a number of theoretical models are extensively described in order to provide a useful framework to interpret this phenomenon. Moreover, a review on the death anxiety concept and the measures of fear of death is provided, highlighting differences between conscious fear of death, usually assessed with self-report instruments, and unconscious reaction toward death, assessed using implicit measures. Finally, Terror Management Theory (TMT) is introduced, as one of the most relevant models that describe human reactions toward death. In this piece of research, NDE is studied for the first time within a TMT framework, producing interesting implications that are discussed in last chapter. In the second chapter, the method is presented. In order to test our hypotheses and to integrate different perspectives and methodologies, participants’ death attitude is assessed using self-report scales, open ended questions, and an implicit measure of what is called “Death Thought Accessibility”, that it is an indirect measure of psychologically defensive reactions toward death. In the third chapter, results are reported, showing differences between people who had a NDE and those who do not. Specifically, people who had a near death experience reported less fear of death, more death acceptance, and a different representation of death with respect to individuals who had not have a NDE. In the fourth chapter, discussion of results and suggestions for future research are provided.
Negli ultimi 40 anni le esperienze di pre-morte (Near Death Experiences - NDE) sono state oggetto di studio in psicologia, filosofia e medicina, e un dibattito sulla loro natura è ancora in corso. Questo tema, infatti, ha notevoli implicazioni rispetto la relazione tra mente e corpo, vita e morte, nonché sulla questione ontologica. Finora, diversi autori hanno proposto un'interpretazione delle esperienze di pre-morte. Nella letteratura accademica esistente, si può osservare una predominanza di opinion article, review article e articoli che descrivono le caratteristiche di questa esperienza. Una recente rassegna segnala una mancanza di studi empirici che mirino a testare delle ipotesi usando dati originali. Esperimenti in laboratorio che mirino a osservare direttamente il fenomeno non sono possibili a causa delle caratteristiche delle esperienze di pre-morte (vedi paragrafo 1.1.1), quindi lo studio dei prodotti di queste esperienza (come i ricordi dell'esperienza o i gli effetti della stessa) può rappresentare un via più indicata per comprendere la natura delle NDE, dato che se fosse possibile stabilire oggettivamente delle differenze tra chi vive una NDE e chi no, potremmo dunque inferire indirettamente delle informazioni sulla natura di questo fenomeno. In questo studio ci siamo focalizzati sul processo di perdita della paura di morire da parte di chi vive una NDE. Con l’obiettivo di comprendere questo processo abbiamo utilizzato una metodologia mista in cui sono comprese misure esplicite e implicite. L’obiettivo generale di questo studio è quello di investigare l’ansia di morte conscia e inconscia e le rappresentazioni di morte di chi ha vissuto una esperienza di pre-morte, e fornire nuovi insight sulla natura di questo fenomeno. Nel primo capitolo vengono introdotti i riferimenti teorici su cui si fonda questo studio. Le NDE sono state descritte come un’intensa esperienza che porta ad una varietà di conseguenze psicologiche ed interpersonali. In questo capitolo sono descritti i diversi modelli utilizzati per interpretare questo fenomeno. Inoltre viene riportata anche una rassegna sul costrutto “ansia di morte” e sui modi di misurarlo, evidenziando le differenze tra la paura di morte conscia, valutata con i self-report, e le reazioni inconsce verso la morte, valutate attraverso l’utilizzo di misurazioni implicite. Il modello teorico denominato “terror management theory” è stato introdotto come modello di spicco nella letteratura nella valutazione dei processi inconsci legati alla gestione di contenuti di morte. In questa ricerca, per la prima volta le esperienze di pre-morte vengono studiate sotto la lente della terror management theory, generando interessanti implicazioni che sono discusse nell’ultimo capitolo. Nel secondo capitolo viene presentato il metodo della ricerca. Con l’obiettivo di testare diverse ipotesi e integrare diverse prospettive teoriche e metodologie, sono stati studiati gli atteggiamenti verso la morte utilizzando strumenti self-report, domande aperte e una misura implicita chiamata “accessibilità ai pensieri di morte”, che è una misura indiretta delle reazioni difensive verso i contenuti di morte. Nel terzo capitolo vengono riportati i risultati e si evidenziano differenze tra chi ha vissuto una NDE e chi no. Nel dettaglio, le persone che hanno avuto un’esperienza di pre-morte mostrano meno paura di morire, più accettazione della morte e una differente rappresentazione della morte rispetto a chi non ha vissuto tale esperienza. Nel quarto capitolo è inserita la discussione dei risultati e le indicazioni per la ricerca futura.
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Brewer, Kenneth Grant. "Differing Death Scenarios: Self Esteem and Death Anxiety." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2002. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0605102-131732/unrestricted/BrewerK062002a.pdf.

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Wallace, Holly. "Near-death experiences, religion, and life after death." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000331.

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Yevtushenko, O. "Language death." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2012. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/26051.

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Schumaker, Robert J. Jr. "Death Salon." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu158643454675877.

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Shen, Li. "Sudden death and pump failure death in heart failure." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8651/.

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Sudden death and pump failure death are two major modes of death in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HF-REF) and in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HF-PEF). There have been advances in evidence-based treatments in patients with HF-REF over the last two decades, along with the changing patient characteristics in both HF-REF and HF-PEF populations. It is of great interest and significance to discover if these changes have translated into temporal changes (and corresponding trends over time) in the risks of sudden death and pump failure death in both populations. Apart from examining any changes in the rates of mode-specific death in population level, it is also of interest and importance to estimate the risks for sudden death and pump failure death in individual patients. Accurate risk prediction can aid in better risk stratification. In patients with HF-REF, identifying high-risk subgroups would help target the device therapy to those most likely to benefit and identifying low-risk subgroups would avoid unnecessary implantation, thus improving the cost-effectiveness of the therapy. In patients with HF-PEF, identifying high-risk subgroups would enable further research into the efficacy of device therapy in this population. The aims of this work were to examine the trends in the rates of sudden death and pump failure death over time in patients with HF-REF and in patients with HF-PEF, and to separately develop validated models to predict sudden death and pump failure death in both populations. Given that there are limited data on mode-specific death from community-based studies, I used data from clinical trials which have more detailed and standardised sub-classification and adjudication of mortal events. Besides, compared to community-based studies, clinical trials have more detailed baseline characterisation, which allows more complete multivariable adjustment to account for confounding and between-study differences. Therefore, a cohort of 46,163 patients with HF-REF enrolled in 13 clinical trials conducted between 1995-2015 and a cohort of 10,517 patients with HF-PEF in 3 clinical trials over the period 1999-2013 were included in this thesis. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to examine the trends in the rates of sudden death and pump failure death over time in both populations respectively. The cumulative incidences for sudden death and pump failure death in each trial at different time points during follow-up were calculated with the cumulative incidence function method, counting the competing risk of death from other causes. The risk for each mode of death across trial arms and by HF duration was examined using the Cox regression models, with further adjustment for a number of confounding variables. The models to predict sudden death and pump failure death in patients with HF-REF were separately developed in PARADIGM-HF and validated in ATMOSPHERE. Models for both modes of death in HF-PEF were developed in I-PRESERVE and validated in CHARM-Preserved as well as TOPCAT. These models were constructed using a competing risk approach with the Fine-Gray sub-distributional hazards regression analysis. Model performance was examined by assessing calibration (i.e. the agreement between the observed and predicted cumulative incidences over time) and discrimination (i.e. the ability to separate patients at higher risk from those at lower risk). I found that the risks of sudden death and pump failure death in patients with HF-REF have fallen across 13 clinical trials over the period 1995-2015, consistent with a cumulative use of evidence-based therapies in this population. The absolute rates of sudden death and pump failure death were very low in the early follow-up after randomisation in patients with HF-REF who received modern evidence-based treatment. Longer standing HF was associated with greater risks of sudden death and, particularly, pump failure death in HF-REF. The risks of sudden death and pump failure death were consistently low across the 3 largest clinical trials in patients with HF-PEF, with little difference by experimental treatment in any trial. There was a downward trend in the rates of sudden death and pump failure death across these trials over time, in parallel with a changing characteristic of patients enrolled in these trials. Nevertheless, sudden death and pump failure death remained the most common modes of death, altogether accounting for the majority of CV death. The absolute rates of sudden death and pump failure death in patients with HF-PEF were extremely low in the early follow-up after randomisation. Longer standing HF was associated with a slightly higher risk of sudden death and a substantially higher risk of pump failure death in HF-PEF. The sudden death and pump failure death models in patients with HF-REF I developed in the largest and most contemporary cohort (PARADIGM-HF), included a number of variables collected in routine clinical practice, and accounted for the prognostic impact of the competing risk of death from other causes. The discriminating ability was modest for the sudden death model but excellent for the pump failure death model. Both models showed good calibration and were robust when externally validated in ATMOSPHERE. The prognostic models in patients with HF-PEF I developed in I-PRESERVE, using simple demographic and clinical variables, showed good discrimination and calibration for both sudden death and pump failure death, and were robust in external validation in CHARM-Preserved and TOPCAT. The performance of both models was further improved with the inclusion of NT-proBNP. In conclusion, I have found that the risks of sudden death and pump failure death have declined over time both in patients with HF-REF and in patients with HF-PEF based on clinical trial data. The patterns of change in the rates of both modes of death over time need to be examined in community-based populations. The prognostic models for both modes of death, showing reasonable performance, can be considered for use in risk stratification for mode-specific death in both populations, aiding in decision making in device therapy in similar patients in HF-REF and helping with patient selection for device interventions in future trials in HF-PEF.
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Kienow, Nancy Louise. "Death education and death anxiety in student nurse aids /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487776210794947.

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Luke, Brandon Thomas. "Roman Pompeii, geography of death and escape| The deaths of Vesuvius." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1555290.

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Pompeii suffered a famous volcanic disaster in 79 AD. This led to a tremendous loss of life. This thesis examines that loss of life and the geography of death left behind by the eruption. Where did the citizens of Pompeii die, and how could they have avoided their fate? These are issues that are examined through geographic methodologies and the use of GIS. The results indicate a people that could have been spared with proper hazards management, and one that shows through mapping the large loss of life that accompanied one of history's most famous volcanic eruptions.

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Luke, Brandon Thomas. "ROMAN POMPEII, GEOGRAPHY OF DEATH AND ESCAPE: THE DEATHS OF VESUVIUS." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384891685.

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Kocanoglu, Aysel. "Personal Meanings Of Death And Religiosity As Predictors Of Death Anxiety And Death Fear Of University Students." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12606559/index.pdf.

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This study had four basic purposes: The first purpose was to examine the dimensions of personal meanings of death (PMDS) perceived by university students. Secondly, understanding how these meanings and self reported religiosity contribute to predict death anxiety
third to predict death fear from PMDS and self reported religiosity. Lastly, to investigate gender differences between females and males in terms of personal meanings of death, death anxiety and death fear. The sample consisted of 498 undergraduate students from METU, of whom 271 were male and 227 female. Three instruments-Personal Meanings of Death Scale (PMDS), Templer&rsquo
s Death Anxiety (DAS) and Collet &
Lester Fear of Death Scale (FDS)- and a demographic Data Form were administered to participants. Turkish versions of DAS (Ertufan, 2000) and FDS (Ertufan, 2000) were used. Factor analysis was employed to investigate dimensions of Personal Meanings of Death Scale (PMDS) in Turkish university sample. Secondly, t-test was conducted to investigate gender differences in terms of personal meanings of death, death anxiety and death fear. A stepwise multiple regression analysis was conducted to evaluate how Personal Meanings of Death and self reported religiosity predicted death anxiety and death fear of Turkish University students. Results of the factor analysis of PMDS revealed three factors, extinction, afterlife, motivation/legacy. Results indicated that there was significant gender differences in terms of &ldquo
extinction&rdquo
dimension of death, females had significantly higher mean scores on &ldquo
extinction&rdquo
dimension than males. Additionally, there was significant gender difference in terms of death anxiety and death fear, in that, females had higher scores on both death anxiety and death fear. Results of stepwise regression analysis indicated that extinction is the main predictor of both death anxiety and death fear.
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Elvish, Andrew William. "Death becomes her : the death aesthetic in/as fashion advertising." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq26023.pdf.

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Clair, Erin C. "Death becomes her modernism, femininity, and the erotics of death /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5973.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 6, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.
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Margolis, Emily S. "Art After Death: A Heuristic Study of Death and Tradition." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2011. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/90.

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This heuristic research examines the personal and therapeutic importance of exploring ones cultural interpretations of death and dying. The research began at a Día de los Muertos celebration in Los Angeles, CA and my observations of that event were used as an inspiration to create meaningful art. Through analysis and examination of the artwork I addressed my individual and clinical struggles regarding death. The knowledge I gained exploring my own questions concerning death and dying can be used to avoid encumbrances to my provision of effective therapy in the future.
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Sandman, Lars. "A good death : on the value of death and dying /." Göteborg : Acta universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39139983k.

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Staton, David. "A Beautiful Death: Visual Representation in Death With Dignity Storytelling." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20522.

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This dissertation takes as its central topic visual narratives in Death with Dignity Storytelling and posits the author’s ideas of a beautiful death and the heard gaze. Its methodology includes a textual analysis of such images, which in turn leads to a typology, and the use of a digital tool to “sum images” to test the veracity of the typology. What creates the impulse to look at images of pain, suffering the withering body, the compulsion to bear witness to misery? That question is in part answered by Sontag (2003) Regarding the Pain of Others—“we are spectators of calamities” (p. 18)—and is evident in the indefinite pronoun that hangs at the end of the slim volume’s title. Because it is in those others, that we see ourselves. A Beautiful Death: Visual Representation in Death With Dignity Storytelling considers two case studies as examination and proofs of its claims.
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Mauck, Erin E. "Oregon's Death with Dignity Act: Socially Constructing a Good Death." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3043.

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As aid-in-dying legislation expands across the United States, this study examines the dynamics influencing participation in Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act. In addition to data from secondary sources, this thesis analyzes field research data collected in Oregon, including 14 in-depth interviews with volunteers and employees of two advocacy organizations at the center of legalized physician-assisted death. Themes emerged including the conditions that motivate participation, the importance of both personal and professional autonomy, the significance of a good death, and the growth of open dialogues about end of life choices. This thesis concludes with a discussion of the impact Death with Dignity laws could have across the United States, with a specific focus on the state of Tennessee.
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Selam, Ophelia. "Ecofeminism or death." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.

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Lennon, Joan. "Wordsworth and death." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6459.

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Wordsworth is known as the poet of joy and hope, and to associate his name with death may seem at first strange. Yet, according to his own estimation, he was the poet not simply of joy but of “the very heart of man," of "human kind, and what we are”, of "men as they are men within themselves." Any vision of human nature which does not take into account the facts of mortality and bereavement is blinkered and inevitably inadequate and Wordsworth was committed to clarity of perception and the fullest insights of the Imagination. He did not shy away from the implications of “our mortal Nature”; throughout his career, he sought to portray in poetry the place of death in human life. Two basic ways of understanding mortality are considered in this thesis: the first is death as disjunction, extinction, the end; the second is death as part of a larger continuity, a threshold, a stage. The conflict between these two visions was fundamental to Wordsworth's thought, and writing. Isolation and despair were the corollaries of the first vision, while the capacity for love and hope which was essential to the life of the human spirit was nurtured and made possible by the second. Wordsworth wrestled in his writings with the effects of these different visions of death on the complexities of human nature. The thesis has been divided into three main parts. Section I - Death in Wordsworth's Time - seeks to place the poet into a historical context. Section II - Death in Wordsworth' Life - is concerned with Wordsworth's personal experiences of loss and feelings about his own mortality, And in Section III - Death in Wordsworth's Poetry - what he had to say about death is considered in relation to some of the other major themes in his poetry.
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Warnes, C. A. "Sudden coronary death." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379320.

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Southwell, Gareth. "Redefinitions of death." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2008. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/redefinitions-of-death(04bbd8f1-6bf9-4c7e-8180-f487b705c6d7).html.

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In this dissertation I consider the current controversy surrounding the definition of death in certain rare situations which arise in response to advances in medical technology. In relation to these, I criticise various approaches which seek a resolution to such problems, arguing that all of them involve unjustified and unexamined assumptions as to the nature of death, and other related concepts. In chapter 1, I introduce and define the nature of the problem, arguing that whilst the problem can be seen to spring from technological advances, these merely reveal an inherent ambiguity. In chapter 2, I examine the so-called 'strictly-biological approach', and argue that its premise (that we can treat death as a purely factual matter) is flawed. In chapter 3, I support this conclusion with a broader attack upon conceptual essentialism, of which the strictly-biological approach can be seen as a foremost example. I also argue that this means that the nature of the problem is one that is not amenable to the sort of conceptual analysis that many might use to resolve the problem. Chapter 4 looks at the idea that biological function - the central criterion of the strictly-biological approach - cannot be considered an intrinsic, mind-independent feature of the world (and therefore, neither can a strictly-biological definition of death). Chapters 5 and 6 look at non-strictly-biological attempts to define death (what I term 'partly-biological' views) - namely the capacity for consciousness and personal identity respectively - and argue that both these approaches, far from resolving the problem, merely shift it to a different ground. In chapter 7,1 present a different picture of death as an 'observer-relative' feature of the world (to use John Searle's terminology), and argue that the resolution of the problem must have more in common with practices (e.g. in sport) where similar ambiguities are occasionally faced. In chapter 8, I further explore the consequences of the observer-relative status of death, arguing that this means that a much wider degree of variance and mutability is possible in relation to the related concepts of 'self and 'death', and that certain religious viewpoints and scenarios in science-fiction literature embody just such a 'dialogue with death' and present us with what I term notions of 'the expanded self. Finally, I briefly outline some of the consequences of my arguments for medicine and public policy decisions, and suggest certain avenues for future research, arguing that rather than seeking to arrive at a single, unified definition of death, we should instead search for ways of coping with multiple parallel 'redefinitions' of death.
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Diehl, Eric M. "Death Vegas Valley." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4266.

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My work explores hallucinatory landscapes of the US American West by using a combination of painting styles outside of the Western painting canon. I cross-reference painting and cinema, interweaving video, acrylic paint and the panorama to create a satirical homage to the history and present state of the USA. However, through an earnest devotion to the medium - both painting and cinema - I find my criticisms also yearn to hold onto a belief in a myth I know to be false. This is an American History conversation about artifice and consumerism through advertising. I use Las Vegas and the Mojave Desert as my metaphor. Las Vegas’ rapidly expanding population has displaced actual plants and animals to replace them with artificial sculptures of the desert cactus and coyote. This desert landscape occupies what was previously Mexico and before that Indigenous lands. TV and hallucinogens play a part in my work - as a means to tap into the psychological staticky holiness of the desert, and I use certain painting techniques to mimic the optical effects of these phenomena. These techniques reference my experience with theater backdrop painting and psychedelic movie posters as well as kitsch hobbyist landscape painting. My focus is the specific territory outside of the National Parks service, the government lands leased to mining companies and housing developers. These are the mystical desert tracts of spacious landscape, just as ecologically important to the whole, yet considered “not quite pretty enough” to warrant a National Park sign or roaming ranger.
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Sawchak, Timothy Alan. "Reflections on death." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Evans, Stephen W. "Art unto death." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5750.

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As people living in 2017, what, if anything, have we come to know about art as a whole? What can we say about the artistic impulse? What is art for, and what does it stand to show us about ourselves today? In this paper, I try to address these questions, from the standpoint of both an artist and a human being. Examining art as ancient as the prehistoric cave paintings, as well as art of the present day, I discuss certain ontological traits that art-making has both lost and maintained over the years. Through Heidegger’s philosophy of Being, Tillich’s theology of New Being, and Stephen King’s depictions of the uncanny, I explore the idea that all creative acts ultimately point us back to our own mortality and finitude.
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Winters, Bennett G. "Death by Water." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5822.

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The first half of a novel entitled Death by Water. The novel depicts a catastrophic event—the sinking of a cruise ship on which a high school prom is taking place—and the fallout of the event across the internet and in the life of a character who had a close relationship with those that died on the ship.
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Martin, Linda. "Death of desire, desire of death, an exploration of narcissism and death in Madame Bovary and The Awakening." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ32691.pdf.

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Reid, Charles. "Knowledge and attitudes concerning near-death experiences and attitudes toward death." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0018/MQ49730.pdf.

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Vülser, Ingrid. "The theme of death in Italian art : the triumph of death." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33944.

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This paper focuses on the evolution of the theme the Triumph of Death, the representation of the personification of death and the dead in the late Middle Ages. The first part of this thesis represents different points of view of art historians and historians concerning the death and the afterlife. There follows a short description and analysis of the cultural environment especially regarding literature which closely relates to the visual art and the representation of death. The last part describes three themes of death and the most important representations in frescoes, panels, bas-reliefs of the Triumph of Death evincing the main idea and the underlying structure and composition. Two different ways of representation can be distinguished: the Triumph of Death in the shape of the apocalyptic rider as appearing in the Revelation of Saint John the Evangelist and the Triumph of Death based on Petrarch's poem the Trionfi.
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Hewett, Amanda. "The pleasures of death : the place of death in contemporary psychoanalysis." Thesis, University of Kent, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250353.

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Rogers, Philip. "Life in death an Orthodox pastoral approach to death and dying /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p015-0461.

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Michailakis, Dimitris. "Legislating death socio-legal studies of the brain death controversy in Sweden /." Uppsala : Stockholm : [Uppsala University] ; Distributor, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1995. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/32780657.html.

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Jarl, Zandra. "The Threshold between Life and Death : An Examination of Near Death Experiences." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-3107.

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In studies on Near Death Experiences (NDE) data has been collected by using the recently developed scaling methods, the scale developed by Ring and the Greyson NDE Scale. In order to illustrate the problems in the empirical study of NDEs, my intention is to compare the Greyson NDE-scale with the most common theories on NDEs.  After series of modifications the final scale consisted of a questionnaire consisting of sixteen different questions, that yielded into four different areas, Cognitive components, Emotional components, Paranormal components, and Transcendental components.

In the end the theory that has the most likely possibility to explain NDEs in the future must be the Dying Brain theory, but one should not disclose the different features of the Afterlife theory (but without the origin explanation).

 

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Herington, Thomas. "Making Dying Better: Envisioning a Meaningful Death by Contemplating the Assisted Death." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34977.

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The contemporary juridico-political and bioethical debate over physician assisted dying has emerged as one of the most divisive of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Commonly strained through Western conceptions of individual rights and near ubiquitous calls for the respect an abstractly defined human dignity, popular discourse on assisted dying tends to promote universal understandings of both human beings as well as ethical, legal, moral action. This thesis, however, holds these debates in abeyance preferring rather to explore the ways in which the possibility of an assisted death creates a more meaningful dying space for many Canadian advocates. And though I cannot answer for everyone, for many of the 24 individuals I spent months interviewing, “hanging out” with and generally following around to various meetings/training sessions, the assisted death is not some nihilistic response to the suffering of our materially bounded/feeling bodies, but a contemporary recurrence of a deeply spiritual, relational and artful dying.
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Mellink, Albert Osger. "Death as eschaton a study of Ignatius of Antioch's desire for death /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2000. http://dare.uva.nl/document/55570.

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Kolikof, Joshua S. "Diagnostic drift in sudden infant death syndrome." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/21196.

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Thesis (M.A.) PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
INTRODUCTION: In the years that followed the 1994 Back to Sleep Campaign (BSC), a public health initiative designed to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the prevalence of SIDS decreased by nearly 50%. However, recent research questions the decline in SIDS with an appreciation of contemporaneous factors which may have contributed to it. There is a growing recognition that other, often indiscernible causes of Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths (SUID) have increased prevalence rates. Several researchers have addressed the possibility of the effects of a diagnostic drift. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of certain contemporaneous factors on the decline in the prevalence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. METHODS: We examined a historically significant time period surrounding the implementation of the BSC, 1984-2009. It is a time-period that incorporates mortality statistics prior to the BSC, as well as immediately following. We utilized 1984-2009 mortality data obtained from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and evaluated the following prevalence rates: SIDS, unknown and unspecified causes, Accidental Strangulation and Suffocation in Bed (ASSB), and Neglect. We then amalgamated unknown and unspecified causes, ASSB and Neglect into a single representation of non-SIDS SUID. We then proceeded to perform an analysis on these prevalence rates to determine linear trends. RESULTS: All-cause mortality rate decreased linearly by about .929 per 100,000 per year (p<.0001, β=-.929). SIDS mortality rates also experienced a significant decline of about .951 per 100,000 deaths per year (p<.0001, β=-.951). In contrast, the SUID cohort prevalence increased significantly with a rate of .930 per 100,000 per year (p<.0001, β=.930). DISCUSSION: Over our study period, SIDS declined significantly, but by 2001 it experienced a stagnant decline that was different than that from 1984-2000. From 2001 to 2009, our SUID cohort increased dramatically. It is our conclusion that the potential exists for a possible diagnostic drift from SIDS to these other SUID.
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Padilha, Solange Viaro. "The ordeal of death." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/24387.

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au, kimray@nd edu, and Kathryn Imray. "Qohelet's Philosophies of Death." Murdoch University, 2009. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20100211.75157.

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This thesis arises at the meeting place of a philosophical and a thanatological treatment of the book of Qohelet. A philosophical treatment is defended on the grounds of previous studies of the type of thinking evidenced in the text, as well as a comparison with ancient notions of philosophy which suggest that philosophy concerns the type of questions asked, the method of answering the questions, the answers to the questions, and the purpose of the endeavour. A thanatological treatment is defended both on the grounds of previous studies of the text as well as on the grounds of clear evidence that the text is very concerned with the issue of death. From a philosophical perspective it is assumed the book says something about such themes as beauty, knowledge, states of being, ethics, and the benefits of a philosophical outlook. These philosophical categories are combined with the text’s thanatology. The thesis therefore presents: a death aesthetic, in which death can be beautiful; an epistemology of death, in which we are shown to possess certain knowledge of our own mortality in contrast to the lack of understanding we possess about the events of life; a phenomenology of death, or a study of the state of being dead, in which it is seen that death can only ever be the object of our gaze, and we can never experience our own death; an ethics of death, or more precisely an ethics of suicide, in which it is asked, if suicide is appropriate, under what conditions it is better to be dead than alive; and, finally, the death-based nature of the philosophy itself, in which it is seen that one cannot be wise without thinking on death, and that such thoughts confer a particular sort of life on the wise person.
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Crisby, Milita. "Cell death in atherosclerosis /." Stockholm, 1998. http://diss.kib.ki.se/1998/91-628-3191-7/.

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Bonzo, J. Matthew. "Death, identity, and immortality." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Tilley, Jessica. "Death in Sacred Harp." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/rs_theses/11.

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The extraordinary body of Sacred Harp music has been dubbed "the oldest continuously sung American music." Steven Marini, scholar of sacred arts, proposes that the Sacred Harp community welcomes anyone into their singings, regardless of their religious beliefs. His analysis does not take into account the emphasis placed on conversion to Christianity that is demonstrated by the lyrics and the rituals of the Sacred Harp community, however. Religion is not "a matter of personal faith" to Sacred Harp singers as Marini suggests, but a matter of a very specific set of faith commitments. The implications of these commitments for Sacred Harp singers determine their eternal destiny. An investigation into the lyrics of The Sacred Harp hymnal reveals a preoccupation with death, always with intent to point toward the individual "religious" choice of eternal death or eternal life and the desire to share that knowledge with anyone who comes in contact with this remarkable phenomenon.
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Rice, James Paul. "Death, Dying and Decisionmaking." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496011.

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Erdem, Cengiz. "The life death drives." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514212.

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Guest, Dorinda. "Virginia Woolf : Embracing Death." Thesis, University of Kent, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499842.

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Ernsberger, Staci. "DEATH ACCEPTANCE IN WIDOWHOOD." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hes_etds/18.

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Death is a universal event that all living things experience. Older adults, in particular, are more mindful of death than younger generations because of their proximity and increased exposure to it. In addition, thoughts of one’s own death often increase with the death of a spouse. Previous research has explored the role of social support in death acceptance and the effect of previous marital satisfaction on a widow’s well-being. However, there is a lack of research regarding the experience of a widow’s personal death acceptance relative to spousal death acceptance and marital satisfaction. This phenomenological study aims to better understand the personal death acceptance of eight older widows (age 65+) through their experiences with marital satisfaction and spousal death acceptance. Seven women and one man participated in two rounds of semi-structured telephone interviews and completed supplemental surveys regarding their marriage and death attitudes. Findings indicate that essential dimensions of recalled high marital satisfaction and spousal death acceptance relates to experiences of positive personal death acceptance.
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Wee, Bee Leng. "Death rattle : an exploration." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289908.

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White, Lorraine. "The microbiology of death." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10361/.

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The main aim of this research was an attempt to clarify whether the protagonists of bacterial bone destruction were of a bodily origin as opposed to environmental contamination by soil bacteria and furthermore to demonstrate a time frame for such attack. It is hypothesised that bacteria from the gut commensal flora are responsible for micro-focal destruction (MFD) of bone postmortem that leaves distinctive tunnels. Microorganisms live with a person throughout their life and somewhat ironically after death persist to exploit this now nonoperational substrate. They continue to thrive and without a working immune system are capable of crossing mucosal barriers and invading both soft and hard body tissues. Experimental protocol using pigs as human analogues were combined with archaeological sections of both humans and animals. The experimental research was almost absolute in the conclusion that only the fetal material was free of MFD one year post-mortem; these were entirely skeletonised and open to contamination by soil bacteria. All of the other pigs had suffered some form of attack, including those that had not skeletonised and were not therefore subjected to soil bacteria. The archaeological material tended to support the hypothesis that endogenous gut bacteria were the cause of MFD as both fetal material and animal bones were much less likely to be affected. It is suggested that soil bacteria are not normally accountable for MFD although their involvement cannot be ruled out entirely and they may be involved at a later stage. It is therefore likely that endogenous gut bacteria having access to a dead body immediately are most often the cause of MFD and that this occurs well within the early postmortem period. This has negative implications for biomolecular studies and positive implications for in-situ preservation.
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Leonard, Stephen. "Death and Other Endings." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1163.

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Meduri, Matthew Paul. "The Death of Lily." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366242013.

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Fortkamp, Aaron M. "The Little Death Artist." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1318025921.

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Weigel, Daniel J. "The Story of Death." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396453901.

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Burwinkel, David. "Death and the City." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427897764.

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