This paper discusses Augustine’s dealings with the death of a friend and that his mother Monica, as told in Confessions. Neoplatonists are uncertain about afterlife; ends it all for secularists; Augustine has hope, is not end. One grieves over loved one, but without given promise everlasting life. places this life next God’s grace. The sorrow passing one evidences transience existence; Christia...

In this article, I explore how family members of a person with early-onset dementia in the Netherlands attempt to achieve empathetic understanding from significant others, and the barriers they encounter in the process. Based on qualitative interviews, I show that the type of relationship shapes the choices people have to communicate their suffering and their expectations regarding the reaction...

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It has not been too long since we realized that Joseph Murray (1919-2012) has passed away while we heard this sad news 2 weeks ago. We never forget his memories and trip for the first time on 14th November 1974to Iran. He returned to our country one more time later to share his experiences with the country specialists. It is a great sorrow that he did not see our progress in plastic and reconst...

Most of results described in this talk were obtained in collaboration with Dmitrij P. Sorokin and our teacher Dmitrij V. Volkov who, to our great sorrow, untimely leaved us this January. In this short printed version of my talk I describe the generalized action for super–p– branes [1] which can be used to construct the doubly supersymmetric generalization [2] of the geometric approach [3], and ...

In spite of scientific evidence that miscarriage has negative psychological consequences for many individuals and couples, silence and dismissal continue to surround this invisible loss in North American culture and beyond. The grief and sorrow of miscarriage has important implications for clinical practice. It indicates a need for therapeutic interventions delivered in a caring, compassionate,...

Recently, in order to measure human sensibility, diversified researches including facial expression, questionnaire and analysis of bio-signal have been progressed. The objective of this study is to classify human sensibility quantitatively and objectively by using 3 types of bio-signal of PPG, GSR and RESP. First, bio-signal was analyzed by sorting out photos based on 6 types of basic sensibili...