Life after 'death'

Life after death

Kovanov attended medical school in the late 1920s and early 1930s and was therefore imbued with the revolutionary spirit and dreams of Soviet power. His record of these early days is therefore valuable, as is his account of the German invasion of Russia. There is a great deal about the practice of surgery and also research, with occasional references to American published work. As a record of c...

The Metaphysical View of Death and Life after Death

The psychology of life after death.

Traditionally, people's concern with an afterlife has been of interest only to philosophy and religion. The recent explosion of popular articles and books about life after death has now reached the medical and psychiatric journals, in which "scientific" reports cite evidence from survivors of clinical death and from deathbed visions of terminal patients, among other sources of data. This articl...

the picture of the life after death in avicenna’s philosophy

the aim of this article is to examine avicenna’s theory of the immortality of human soul. avicenna believes in immortality of the soul and resurrection of the body but he engages in a philosophical investigation about the former not the latter. according to his view, religion has talked of resurrection of the body in detail. the picture he presented of the immortality of the soul, viz spiritual...

Life at the end of life: beliefs about individual life after death and "good death" models - a qualitative study

BACKGROUND Different ideas of "good death" may influence the effectiveness of end-of-life care in patients with different ethos. This study aimed to identify the influence of believing in individual life after death on "good death" models. METHODS Semi structured-interview to 8 persons, 4 believers and 4 non-believers in individual life after death from the general Italian population. Analysi...