normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: death-related information is source for identifying the health prerequisites and formulating the related programs. due to importance of data for decision making, evaluation of it to determine the rate of documentation and errors is necessary. methods: in this descriptive, cross-sectional study, all issued cer...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to investigate the differences regarding spiritual development dimensions and death attitude profiles, and also to determinate association between them, in patients suffering from type II diabetes. METHODS In a cross-sectional design study, 100 female outpatients who were suffering from type II diabetes were recruited in Imam Khomeini Hospital, Sari, Iran. Da...

hakim sanaie lived in last parts of fifth and first of sixth centuries. he used and compiled the mystical, ethical and quranic concepts in his poetry. he influenced attar and molavi. sanaie started to compose the mystical and ethical versified story. he has used some parts of verses, themes, definition, words and composition of quran in his poetry. the present essay deals with introducing sanai...

This article focuses on what could be called the “historical” character of metaphysics, which would account for its birth and definitive collapse, as illustrated by Nietzsche’s announcement death God. It elaborates two aspects this announcement. First, it compares characters Nietzsche relates to God, “deranged man” that appears in The Gay Science Zarathustra, who had originally considered procl...

Obituaries from the New York Times are examined at three points to illuminate changing conceptions of death. The findings are twofold. Changes in the obituary demonstrate how the locus of social control over death has shifted from nature and God, to medicine and most recently to the individual. Additionally, it is shown that descriptions of biophysical aspects of the dying process are marginali...

all of the major branches of islamic mysticism, ‘irfān, refer to imam ‘ali (‘a) as a major source for their teachings and practices. hence, we begin with a review of how the mystics viewed imam ‘ali (‘a). after this we consider some controversies about the nature of ‘irfān and its relationship to sufism, for the terms have been used in different ways. then we turn to the sources on the basis of...

Both Nietzsche, as the nineteenth century wound down, and Foucault in the last third of the twentieth century, responded to, and sought a way out of, a profound cultural crisis. Nietzsche first signaled the eruption of that crisis with his proclamation of the death of God,1 and eighty years later Foucault confronted the deepening impact of that same crisis. For Nietzsche, the death of God, in t...