A renowned ethicist who himself faced death during a recent life-threatening illness, Allen Verhey in The Christian Art of Dying sets out to recapture dying fro
Death will come to us all, but most of us live our lives as if death did not exist. Medicine has made dying more complicated and more removed from the experienc
By mining the rich tradition of virtue ethics, Christopher Vogt uses the virtues of patience, compassion, and hope as a framework for specifying the shape of a
The Medicalization of dying and the disregard for the life of the soul within contemporary health care prompt the return of the Ars moriendi, or The Art of Dyin
Examines how each of the major religions looks at death by including stories, teachings, and rituals that present a comparative religious meaning of death and a