Death and Hope

Death and Hope in Oran

Albert Camus’s The Plague is one of the great works of literature of the twentieth century. It is a well-crafted novel with a universal message, applicable across time and cultures. The plot centers on an outbreak of plague in Oran, a coastal town in Algeria, and chronicles the manner in which the lives of the town’s citizenry are changed as a result, as well as the varying reactions of certain...

From hope and expectation to unexpected death after cardiac surgery.

OBJECTIVE Relatives of patients undergoing cardiac surgery expect successful outcome but sometimes complications cause death. The aim was to interview relatives of patients who have died in connection with cardiac surgery and describe their experiences of information, reception and care. METHODS Data were obtained from semi-structured interviews with 18 relatives of deceased patients and then...

the relationship between death obsession and death anxiety, with hope among the nursing students of urmia medical sciences university

the relationship between death obsession and death anxiety, with hope among the nursing students of urmia medical sciences university     shiekhy s [1] , issazadegan a [2] *, basharpour s [3] , maroei millan f [4]     received: 15 may , 2013 accepted: 21 jul , 2013  abstract  background & aims : death, an inevitable concept that associates with human being all the time, can cause significant an...

Hope against Hope

In the penultimate chapter of the Bible, in the opening statement of the very last speech God makes in the whole of the Christian Scriptures, God says: "Behold I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5). The prophet sees the old heavens and the old earth the universe as it now is passing away, and new heavens and a new earth, God's new creation of all things, coming into being. It is not that God r...

Faith, Hope and Doubt