Death is the inevitable fate of every single person on earth. How do we accept the inevitability of our own death? How do we live our lives with meaning? Will money lead us to happiness? Satish Modi examines these questions is a moving, powerful, thought-provoking work based on his own reflections as well as the experiences of people from all walks of life. The result is a fascinating book that teaches us that whoever we are and whatever our aspirations in this life, it is important for each and every one of us to accept our own passing. In doing so we can free ourselves to live as well and fu
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In: Index on censorship, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 24-105
ISSN: 0306-4220
Explores physical and metaphorical forms of death; war, death penalty, abortion, euthanasia, dead languages, failed nations, HIV/AIDS, and other issues; 14 articles. Contents: "If all else fail...": there is a world of difference between death and dying, by AC Grayling; Forces of life and death: how to reconcile the right to life with the death penalty, by Mary Kenny; Controversial cross-section: art, anatomy or merely pornographic? by Natasha Schmidt; Sex, lies and censorship: why it took so long for the US paedophile priests scandal to hit the headlines, by Carl M. Cannon; The epic that will not die: Romania clings to its apparatchiks, by Irena Maryniak; The unquiet grave: the disputed graveyards of Eastern Europe, by Vera Rich; The house of burned books: book burning turns out to be a universally enjoyed phenomenon, by Stacy Marking; Holding on to Babel: what happens when a language dies, by Helena Drysdale; Death of a nation: can Sierra Leone claim any longer to be a functioning state? by Aminatta Forna; Women and war: when women become military targets, by Victoria Brittain; Fucking soldiers: how armies spread AIDS in Africa, by Alex de Waal; Price of a life--or death: and the cost of the inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings; Holding on to a dream: hope dies as Palestinians await the return journey, by Caroline Moorehead; Strip search, by Martin Rowson.