Parva Naturalia. On Youth and Old Age. On Life and Death

1957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aristotle
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Life And Death

Rites of Passage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Michaels
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Sexual Maturity ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Transformational Process ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Vulnerable Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

This chapter examines the classical Hindu life-cycle rites, the term saṃskāra and its history, and the main sources (Gṛhyasūtras and Dharma texts). It presents a history of the traditional saṃskāras and variants in local contexts, especially in Nepal. It describes prenatal, birth and childhood, initiation, marriage, old-age, death, and ancestor rituals. Finally, it analyzes the transformational process of these life-cycle rituals in the light of general theories on rites of passage. It proposes, in saṃskāras, man equates himself with the unchangeable and thus seems to counteract the uncertainty of the future, of life and death, since persons are confronted with their finite existence. For evidently every change, whether social or biological, represents a danger for the cohesion of the vulnerable community of the individual and society. These rituals then become an attempt of relegating the effects of nature or of mortality: birth, teething, sexual maturity, reproduction, and dying.

TRAGEDY OF EXISTENCE AND SEARCH FOR SURVIVAL. "THE LITTLE TRAGEDIES" AND "BELKIN’S TALES"

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 86-117
Author(s):  
Mark G. Altshuller ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Individual Human

The Little Tragedies and Belkin’s Tales were written at the same time. In the former, Pushkin examines the main, eternal, and insoluble confl icts of existence: love and death, life and death, inspiration and hard work, youth and old age. These confl icts are tragic, and are in principle insoluble, for humanity. Their collision constitutes the very essence of human life and of human civilization. But — according to Pushkin — what is insoluble for humanity as a whole might be, at least partly, resolved by way of a compromise, when it comes to individual human lives. This is what Belkin’s Tales are about.

Farewell Summer

2020 ◽  
pp. 276-280
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Eller
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Space Program ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Way

In 2006 Bradbury was finally able to complete the Illinois novel that had eluded him for sixty years. Many chapters had been removed and bridged into Dandelion Wine (1957), but the shell remained as an unfinished exploration of the differences between young and old in the context of a Midwestern town. As Farewell Summer, the completed novel probed the boundaries between life and death as seen through the eyes of youth and old age, but it remained an uneven work. Chapter 40 continues with an account of the Space Program mementos and awards that were accumulating throughout Bradbury’s home, contributing to the way that other gifts, books, and projects had turned his home into an outward representation of his own subjective realities and loves.

Death and Dying

2018 ◽  
pp. 203-226
Author(s):  
Philip A. Mackowiak
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
History Of

Chapter 9 (“Death and Dying”) concerns a number of issues related to the end of life: the age-old question of what happens to one after death, the litany of problems encountered in old age, the mixed benefits of defying death, and the long history of assisted dying. These weighty issues and others are addressed in a series of compelling works that celebrate dying in the presence of friends and family, both glorify and demonize death in battle, and question the value of ICU care that suspends patients in a web of tubes and wires simply to create a kind of purgatory between life and death.

scholarly journals Cannibalism In In The Heart of the Sea

K ta Kita ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-259
Author(s):  
Allensia Sarah Levira
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Death Instinct ◽  
After Effects ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Human Flesh ◽  
Guilty Feeling

This study examine the causes and the after effects of cannibalism that the survivors of Essex commit in Ron Howard’s In The Heart of the Sea. The main theory for this study is the theory of human’s life and death instinct by Sigmund Freud and also the theory of survival cannibalism. In collecting the materials of the analysis, the researcher examine the details of the films multiple times to get the footage which later used as proofs to reveals the causes and effects of cannibalism. The findings showed that the unfulfilled basic needs and anxiety are the major causes of cannibalism and also that the guilty feeling and fear of people are the aftermath effects of cannibalism. This shows that the act of consuming human flesh affects their lives throughout their lives until they died of old age. As a result, cannibalism had a big impact, both negative and positive, on the survivors’ lives. Keywords: Cannibalism, Human Instinct, Survival, Anxiety

Questions of Life and Death in Old Age

JAMA ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 279 (8) ◽  
pp. 622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Life And Death

Old Men Created by Young Artists: Time-Transcendence in Tennyson and Picasso

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kastenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Future Selves ◽  
Old Men ◽  
Empathic Imagination

In their youth both Tennyson and Picasso created masterpieces that envisioned old men. Both the poet and the artist would live to become old men themselves. This paper explores the context within which these early masterpieces were created, the style and substance of the works themselves, and the possible relationships between their young and old selves as mediated by their own artistic creations. “Ulysses” was written and “The Old Guitarist” was painted soon after the young artists had suffered the sudden death of a close friend. Numerous other similarities between Tennyson and Picasso are noted, although their lives and personalities also differed in many obvious ways. Both remained creative in old age and both found a way to express their attitudes toward life and death in their last works. Although Tennyson and Picasso are obviously “exceptional cases,” there is reason to believe that many other people also transcend their momentary position on the lifespan and, by acts of empathic imagination, “commune” with past and future selves. Developmental theory might enrich itself considerably by considering these processes and their functions and consequences.

scholarly journals Áreas malditas: a estigmatização de espaços urbanos / Damn areas: the stigmation of urban spaces

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (45) ◽  
pp. 255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciro Vale ◽  
Tania Maciel
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Collective Imagination

<p>Existem áreas urbanas que se apresentam no imaginário coletivo como zonas de significado obscuro e inquietador, sendo, portanto, espaços desvalorizados socialmente, tais como asilos, cemitérios, necrotérios, hospitais, presídios, lixões, albergues e zonas de prostituição, e que são vistas como “áreas malditas”, apesar de serem ligadas a realidades inalienáveis da vida social como a morte, a loucura, a velhice, a criminalidade, o lixo e o erotismo. Neste artigo, interessou-nos investigar, especificamente, o espaço dos cemitérios e das zonas de prostituição. Segundo nossa hipótese, a “maldição” que tais áreas carregam se ligaria ao fato de que elas são associadas à morte, seja ela física ou simbólica. Para isso, recorremos a um referencial teórico que contempla as características de tais espaços.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> áreas malditas, estigmatização, espaço.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>There are urban areas that present in the collective imagination as dark and disquieting meaning zones, and is therefore socially devalued spaces, such as nursing homes, cemeteries, morgues, hospitals, prisons, garbage dumps, hostels and prostitution zones and which are seen as "cursed areas", despite being linked to inalienable realities of social life and death, madness, old age, crime, garbage and eroticism. In this article, we were interested in investigating specifically the space of cemeteries and prostitution zones. According to our hypothesis, the "curse" that carry such areas would bind to the fact that they are associated with death, whether physical or symbolic. For this, we used a theoretical framework that includes the characteristics of such spaces.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: damned areas, stigmatization, space.</p><p> </p>

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