What Is Death ? A Scientific, Philosophical and Theological Exploration of Life`s End

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Scientific Research Death in the biological literature on Life ........21 An autopoietic View of Death : Drawing the concept of Autopoietic Negemergence .....67 Death in medicine : The end of an integrated whole .........83 The equivalence of Death and brain Death in Medicine ....101 Near-Death experience: Horizons and limits........115 Psychoteraphy and end of life ......143 2. Philosophical Research Virtue, Happiness and death in the Ancient philosophical Traditions ........173 Death in the light of modern philosophy..........185 What is the Meaning of living and dying? Defining life and death in the light of the trascendentals .....199 3. Theological Research A catholic Theology of Death .............237 Facing death in a christian way : A brief reflection on saint cyprian`s Treatise on Mortality ............257