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Tables of Contents for The Eternal Pity
Chapter/Section Title
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Introduction
1
38
I. Thinking about Dying: Twelve Classic Visions
The Certainty of Death (George Herbert, ``Mortification'')
39
3
The Figure of Death (The Katha-Upanishad)
42
4
The Romance of Death (Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son)
46
4
Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear? (Manuel Bandeira, ``Profundamente'')
50
2
In the Midst of Life We Are in Death (John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions)
52
3
The Morality of Death (Flannery O'Connor, ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find')'
55
7
Death in War (William Shakespeare, Henry V, Wilfred Owen, ``Anthem for Doomed Youth')'
62
4
Acceptance beyond Fear (Montaigne, ``To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die'')
66
5
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Edward FitzGerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
71
3
Fate as the Will of God (The Quran)
74
9
The Phenomenon of Hope (Dietrich von Hildebrand, Jaws of Death, Gate of Heaven)
83
4
The Irreplaceable Dead (Dylan Thomas, ``A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London'')
87
4
II. When We Die
The Experience of Death (Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych)
91
9
The Ease of Death (Ernest Sandeen, ``Do Not Go Gentle'')
100
2
The Testimony of the Dying (Carol Zaleski, The Life of the World to Come)
102
8
Choosing Suicide (A. Alvarez, The Savage God)
110
6
Choosing to Live (Gilbert Meilaender, ``I Want to Burden My Loved Ones'')
116
5
Hastening Death (Jeffrey E. Ford, ``Mercy Killing at Golgotha'')
121
4
Holding Still for Death (Christian de Cherge, ``Last Testament'')
125
6
III. When Others Die
The Experience of Grief (C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed)
131
6
Burying the Dead (Ralph Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down)
137
8
Dying Alone (Alane Salierno Mason, ``Reconciliation of Unbelief'')
145
6
Watching Others Die (Peter De Vries, The Blood of the Lamb)
151
13
The Uses of Ritual (Milton Himmelfarb, ``Going to Shul'')
164
3
Refusing Consolation (Jody Bottum, ``All That Lives Must Die'')
167
6
The Life of the World to Come (The Book of Common Prayer)
173
6
Sources and Credits
179