The Ghost in the Machine is the Elephant in the Room: Souls, Death, and Harm at the End of Life  

Oleh:

Disilvestro, Russell

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 37 no. 5 (Oct. 2012), page 480-502.
Topik: Death; Harm; Near-Death Experiences; Souls

Ketersediaan

Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.26 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

Lihat Detail Induk

Isi artikel

The idea that we human beings have souls that can continue to have conscious experiences after the deaths of our bodies is controversial in contemporary academic bioethics; this idea is obviously present whenever questions about harm at the end of life are discussed, but this idea is often ignored or avoided because it is more comfortable to do so. After briefly discussing certain types of experiences that lead some people to believe in souls that can survive the deaths of their bodies, I begin to answer the question, “If personal postmortem survival of some sort is real, then how should this alter the way we approach our bioethical discussions about death, the harm of death, and harming the dead?” The bioethics issues I briefly discuss in the remaining two sections are the debate about defining death and the decision whether to forego life-prolonging treatments.

Opini Anda

Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini!

Kembali