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Strange business -- The justification : Beecher's ethics -- The law -- The criteria I : the waking brain--brainstem and the discourse of consciousness -- The criteria II : the working brain : the comatose patient and the biology of consciousness -- Brain death after Beecher and the limits of bioethics

Introduction: Necro-geopolitics and death-making / Caroline Alphin and François Debrix -- Not a state of exception : weak state killing as a mode of neoliberal governmentality / Caroline Alphin -- Political incompetence and death-making : an outline of unsuitable governance / Alexander D. Barder -- On the loss of death : necropolitics in the study of genocide / Benjamin Meiches -- The violent management of peace and beauty in Rio de Janeiro / Francine Rossone de Paula -- The necro-geopolitics of Danish welfare and the horror of responsibility / Gitte du Plessis -- "Death in this country is normal" : quiet deaths in the Global South / Jessica Auchter -- Cinematic encounters and frontiers of precarity / Sam Okoth Opondo and Michael J. Shapiro -- The kill zone : choreographies of life at the limits of a death-world / Ali H. Musleh -- Specters of schmaltz : aesthetics, death, and the haunting of communist kitsch / Stephen Michael Christian and Brent J. Steele -- The Earth's dying body : on the necro-economy of planetary collapse / Mauro J. Caraccioli.

Death penalty: a cruel and inhuman punishment -- Página Legal -- Table of contents -- For a Humanist Criminal Policy: Against the Death Penalty -- The abolition of the Death Penalty -- Introductory Review of the CurrentSituation as Regards Progress Towards (...) -- Hard-core Executioners -- The Death Penalty, Deterrenceand Policy Making -- Abolition of the Death Penaltyfor Drug Crimes -- Public Opinion and Punishment in Japan -- Towards the Complete Abolition of CapitalPunishment in Morocco -- Concerning the Death Penalty Abolition:A Long Road1 -- Human Cruelty in Literature -- Francisco de Goya: Against the Cruelty ofthe Penal System and the Death Penalty

Intifada deaths that occurred during the fourteen months between November 1988 and December 1989 are analysed in regard of eight patterns: frequency of deaths, age of the victims, days with deaths, location of deaths, suspicious deaths, escalation and inhibition, tear gas deaths, and killings by settlers. The article uses data provided by the Database Project on Palestinian Human Rights, an American organization affiliated with the Palestinian Human Rights Information Center in Jerusalem. (DÜI-Hns)

The article attempts to interpret violence as a struggle against death,
carried out by its own means. In emancipating himself from dependence on
nature, man generates in his creative ?lan his own universe of socioculture,
equivalent to the natural world. Death, however, cannot receive any
constructive substitution, trampled by death itself. Violence in our social
life prevents the negation, with which the presence of the Other threatens
us. By confron?tation with the Other, we reach our final frontier.

This paper shows how individuals in late modern social conditions seek to imbue dying, and caring for the dying, with meaning. Accounts provided in a survey of 250 individuals who knew people who had died in the UK are examined. The analysis counters the view that the denial of death is widespread in conditions where religion no longer offers individuals a meaningful narrative for the dying self. Scripts for proclaiming heroic self-identity in the face of death are promoted by cultural experts and appropriated by many lay individuals. This involves a struggle against external and internal enemies to gain knowledge, the opportunity to demonstrate courage and a beatific state of emotional accompaniment in which `carers' and dying people participate. Unlike more traditional forms of heroism, this script deviates from celebrating solely masculine qualities and includes a female heroics of care, concern and emotional expression.At the same time, some deaths cannot be written into this script, which is particularly well suited to deaths from cancer and AIDs. The deaths of the very old, the mentally confused and sudden unexpected deaths are often difficult to interpret in these heroic terms. Additionally, a rival script exists amongst some lay individuals that stands in opposition to the professional consensus on the desirability of open awareness. This emphasises the benefits of continuing the everyday project of the self oblivious of oncoming death, with others shouldering the burden of awareness in an attempt to protect the dying person against the strain of knowledge. This rival script, however, commands decreasing allegiance in a society where the project of the self is rarely given over to the care of others, and trust is commonly negotiated in confessional moments.