Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Mortality And Its Timings —— When Is Death?

----- 关于死亡率及其时间的跨学科展望：什么时候死亡？

ISBN: 9781137583277 出版年：2017 页码：173 Mccorristine Springer

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of adolf hitler?s survival, and the legal concept of brain death. In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how do we know if someone is dead or not? what do people experience at the moment when they die? is death simply a biological event that comes about in temporal stages of decomposition, or is it a social event defined through cultures, practices, and commemorations? in other words, when exactly is death? taken together, these contributions explore how death emerges in a series of stages that are uncertain, paradoxical, and socially contested.