Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DIE IN MADRID. Such passionate non-partisans as John Gielgud and Irene Worth supply the commentary for vintage newsreels of Spain's tragic civil war of 1936-39, shaped by French Producer-Director Frederic Rossif into a powerful work...
LIFE is too short. Perhaps no single force has worked so powerfully on man as his knowledge that he must surely die. Whole civilizations have been built in death's dominion: the Egyptians turned their land into a vast necropolis, and the Aztecs conquered Mexico not for booty but for human sacrifices to blunt the lethal appetites of their man-eating gods. Trying to cope with the dreadful and perplexing fact of death, man has erected great intellectual edifices; philosophers as far apart as Socrates and (2,300 years after him) Karl Jaspers have held that the essence...
...what makes modern life banal, empty and vapid. We run away from death by making a cult of automatic progress, or by making it impersonal. Many people think they are facing death when they are really sidestepping it with the old eat-drink-and-be-merry-for-tomorrow-you-die-middle-aged men and women who want to love everybody, go every place, do everything and hear everything before the end comes. It's like the advertising slogan, 'If I've only one life ... let me live it as a blonde...
Patients often make it clear that they do not want to know the truth. Yet in a study of attitudes among the dying, Dr. Feifel found the patients eager to talk about the subject that was being so carefully avoided by physician, family and friends. Once the old liturgies asked God's protection from a sudden death; today it is expected that people hope to die suddenly. And they do. In automobiles and airplanes, through war or crime, death comes ever more abruptly, ever more violently. And after middle age, it comes suddenly through heart attack or stroke. There...
...Died. Private First Class John Da vid Rogers, 18, adopted son of Singing Cowboy Stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and third of their nine children to die; of asphyxiation due to choking, after celebrating his promotion to pfc; in Gelnhausen, Germany...