Rituals in Death and Dying: Modern Medical Technologies Enter the Fray

In the absence of immortality, the human species has over the millennia developed rites and rituals to help in the passing of life to honor the person who is dying or has died or in some way demonstrate their “courage” and perseverance as well as duty even in the face of almost certain death. The ce...

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Autor principal: Gordon, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Rambam Health Care Campus 2015
Materias:
Death and Dying
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25717389
http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10182
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description In the absence of immortality, the human species has over the millennia developed rites and rituals to help in the passing of life to honor the person who is dying or has died or in some way demonstrate their “courage” and perseverance as well as duty even in the face of almost certain death. The centuries-old traditions of the gathering of loved ones, the chanting of prayers, the ritual religious blessings are in the process of being replaced by the “miracles” of modern medical technology.
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spelling pubmed-43273232015-02-25 Rituals in Death and Dying: Modern Medical Technologies Enter the Fray Gordon, Michael Rambam Maimonides Med J Death and Dying In the absence of immortality, the human species has over the millennia developed rites and rituals to help in the passing of life to honor the person who is dying or has died or in some way demonstrate their “courage” and perseverance as well as duty even in the face of almost certain death. The centuries-old traditions of the gathering of loved ones, the chanting of prayers, the ritual religious blessings are in the process of being replaced by the “miracles” of modern medical technology. Rambam Health Care Campus 2015-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4327323/ /pubmed/25717389 http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10182 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Michael Gordon. This is an open-access article. All its content, except where otherwise noted, is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Rituals in Death and Dying: Modern Medical Technologies Enter the Fray
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327323/
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