Death and Dying An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Knepper, Timothy D. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bregman, Lucy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gottschalk, Mary (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Comparative Philosophy of Religion, 2
• Subjects: Religion-Philosophy.; Religions.; Bioethics.; Philosophy of Religion.; Comparative Religion.

The medicalization of death is a challenge for all the world's religious and cultural traditions. Death's meaning has been reduced to a diagnosis, a problem, rather than a mystery for humans to ponder. How have religious traditions responded? What resources do they bring to a discussion of...