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The Dalai Lama is a political and spiritual leader who, like Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. before him, has voiced strong opposition to violence and oppression while also calling for resistance to injustice. Unlike Gandhi and King, the Dalai Lama has not been on site with his people to protest oppression. In a unique move necessitated by exile from Tibet, he has taken to the world stage to expose the suffering of the Tibetan people while advocating justice, for preservation of Tibetan culture, and for a peaceful solution to the Tibet-China conflict. This paper analyzes the Dalai Lama's understanding of violence as grounded in afflictive emotions that create suffering both in the spiritual as well as in the political realm. The Dalai Lama's analysis of "anger-hatred" as a destructive afflictive emotion requiring spiritual attention underwrites his moral argument for nonviolent resistance. This paper argues that the Dalai Lama not merely examines violence as a problem of spiritual affliction but that he addresses peace and nonviolence as an ethic. Rather than seeking public validation in terms of religious particulars, the Dalai Lama presents an ethic that can be universalized, that is benevolent and otherregarding, and that employs the language of normative action guides and rational principles.

Just war as an ethic -- Nonviolent resistance as a use of force -- The hybrid ethic and its application -- Using the "common agreement" ethic: a critical evaluation -- The ethics of physician-assisted suicide -- The ethics of patient nontreatment -- The ethics of execution and just punishment -- The ethics of abortion: the question of innocence -- The ethics of war: the question of innocence

Intro -- New Perspectives on the End of Life: Essays on Care and the Intimacy of Dying -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1 Medical and Clinical Perspectives -- Code Levels in Cardiology: Who, When and How? -- Nursing the Dying in the Emergency Department: The Importance of Therapeutic Intimacy -- The Final Cut: End-of-Life Empowerment through Autobiographical Video Documentary -- PART 2 Cultural Perspectives -- Palliative Care at the End of Life in Western Europe: The Scandinavian Paradox -- Kodokushi ('Dying Alone'): Japanese Perspectives -- 'Good Death' in the Americas: Do North and South Americans Die Well Differently? -- Managing Death in Twenty-First Century Scotland -- PART 3 Philosophical and Ethical Perspectives -- Moral Death -- Accepting One's Death as a Condition of One's Happiness? -- Confronting Mortality: Reflections from Bedsides of the Dying and Workshops with the Living -- PART 4 Care-Giving Perspectives -- Drawing Lines/Making Connections: The Problem of Distinguishing Disability from Dying in PAD Law -- Risk of Burnout and Protective Factors in Palliative Care -- Making Life rather than Making Sense: Integrating Spirituality into the Daily Practices in a Hospice -- The Institutional Belief in Replaceability: On Systematic Discontinuity in the Treatment of Patients at the End of Life.

Intro -- Re-Imaging Death and Dying -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Re-Imaging Death and Dying -- PART I: Philosophical Re-Imaging -- Pragmatic Immortality and the Insignificance Of My Own Death -- Concepts of Value: Attitudes toward Death -- There Is Good Hope That Death Is a Blessing -- Dignity of the Dead? -- The Haunt: Demons and The Complex of Noon -- The Concept of Death in Children's and Juvenile Literature: Reading and Interpreting Death in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak -- 'I want to live before I die:' Exploring Teenagers' Attitude Towards Death in Jenny Downham's Before I Die -- The Confrontation with Death from Rilke to Heidegger -- Burial Law as Viewpoint towards Death -- To Death - To Life: Grounding Sigurd Lewerentz and Erik Gunnar Asplund's Tallum Cemetery -- Heroic Death and Selective Memory: The U.S.'s WWII Memorial & -- The U.S.S.R.'s Monument to The Heroic Defenders of Leningrad -- Rethinking and Recognizing Genocide: The British and the Case of the Great Irish Potato Famine -- Death in Self-Harmers' Eyes -- PART II:Communication Re-Imaging -- Analysis of Terminally Ill Patients' Weblogs Using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) Program -- Archiving Grief: (Re) Writing Histories in the Aftermath of Loss -- Communicating with the Dead through the Newspaper: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis -- Agencies of the Afterlife: Weblogs and Television Shows on Death in the Netherlands -- PART III: Ethical Re-Imaging -- Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Supreme Court: A Decade in the Life of a Constitutional Issue That's' Not Dead Yet' -- The Ethics of Patient Non-Treatment -- What's Wrong with the Brain Death Debate? -- Death & -- Justice: An Ethical Response to Massacre -- Kantian Obligatory Suicide: Further Developments -- PART IV: Experiencing Re-Imaging.