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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings

Part of the Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife Book Series

Editors: McCorristine, Shane

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4

ISBN: 978-1-137-58327-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Sep 20, 2017

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

McCorristine, Shane

Pages: 1 –16

[This Introduction addresses the central theme of the book and sketches out the origins of this interdisciplinary endeavour. Our core question, “when is death?”‚ is briefly explored through an analysis of the movie Weekend at Bernie’s before turning to the topic of the traditional Irish wake. It...
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Chapter 2Being Dead in Shakespearean Tragedy

Lund, Mary Ann

Pages: 17 –31

[This chapter examines the speech acts that denote and surround death in Shakespeare’s tragedies, and considers the part they play in enacting and indicating death timings on the English Renaissance stage. A character’s death can be heralded by his or her dying words, gestures, or sounds; by the...
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Chapter 3“A Candidate for Immortality”: Martyrdom, Memory, and the Marquis of Montrose

Bennett, Rachel

Pages: 33 –47

[James Graham, the 1st Marquis of Montrose, was a prominent figure in the mid-seventeenth century conflict between the Scottish Covenanters and the Stuart King. In 1650 he was executed as a traitor to the Covenanting cause in a spectacle intended to mark an ignominious legal and social death....
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Chapter 4Overcoming Death: Conserving the Body in Nineteenth-Century Belgium

Deblon, Veronique; Wils, Kaat

Pages: 49 –67

[Anatomists in nineteenth-century Belgium developed several conservation techniques for the preservation of the corpse. Embalmed bodies and anatomical preparations were often conserved and perceived as if they were still alive and appeared to be sleeping. The slumbering corpses echoed a shift in...
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Chapter 5Premature Burial and the Undertakers

Parsons, Brian

Pages: 69 –85

[The absence of a requirement for a physician to examine a body after death was at the root of the fear of premature burial in the nineteenth century. Despite the founding of a pressure group to improve death certification, along with attempts by undertakers to become verifiers of mortality,...
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Chapter 6The Death of Nazism? Investigating Hitler’s Remains and Survival Rumours in Post-War Germany

Sharples, Caroline

Pages: 87 –102

[During the Third Reich, the regime routinely peddled the notion that fallen Nazis were not truly dead, but continued to fight for Germany as part of a spiritual army; this was important ideological glue for manufacturing the Volksgemeinschaft (“People’s Community”). Similarly, the fate of...
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Chapter 7Death’s Impossible Date

Davies, Douglas J.

Pages: 103 –117

[The dating of death can be set alongside ideas of the soul and of sensing the presence of the dead, to identify what we call the mortality paradox. This emerges from traditions in which the dead are both dead and yet exist in some other form or domain. Grief may often partner this intriguing...
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Chapter 8The Legal Definition of Death and the Right to Life

Wicks, Elizabeth

Pages: 119 –131

[This chapter focuses on the legal definition of death and its implications for the legal protection of the right to life. Within the UK, the law adopts brain-stem death (BSD) as the point at which life ends. Some commentators argue for the introduction of a legal concept of higher-brain death....
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Chapter 9The Last Moment

Rée, Jonathan

Pages: 133 –144

[What do people experience at the moment when they die? The question may be unanswerable, but it exerts a vast and perhaps universal fascination; and this fascination is greatly intensified in cases of death by deliberate judicial execution. This chapter connects this phenomenon to what Heidegger...
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Chapter 10Afterword

Laqueur, Thomas W.

Pages: 145 –154

[Breath—or more precisely, the possibility of future breaths—is still what matters, as it always has, in answer to the question “when is death?” Since as far back as history can take us, the absence of breath was the key factor in determining death. In the 1960s, what seemed like a new kind of...

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