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- Quote Origin: The Mark of the Immature Man Is That He Wants . . .
A page of slang soiled by an occasional obscenity is followed by an aphorism of this quality: “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humbly for one ”
- Balancing life and death desires: a philosophical examination . . .
Briefly speaking, being ambivalent means to be torn between the desire to die and the desire to stay alive (Shneidman, 1998) Traditionally, the concept of suicidal ambivalence has been viewed as a continuum with the desire to live and the desire to die at opposite ends
- The Problem of Desire - Psychology Today
It is desire that moves us and gives our life direction and meaning—perhaps not meaning in the cosmic sense, but meaning in the more restricted narrative sense
- Death, Value, and Desire | The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy . . .
This chapter examines the connection between value and desire with regard to death It argues that having categorical desires is a necessary condition for death to be bad for those who die, and that the degree to which death is bad bears a close relation to the number and strength of those desires
- The Desire for Death in the Setting of Terminal Illness: A . . .
When a terminally ill patient expresses a desire to die early or sooner than one could, his or her physicians must strive to understand the underlying problem and address it appropriately From the outset, the physician should realize that there is always something that can be done
- Why Do People Want to Die? The Meaning of Life from the . . .
One way to examine the enigmatic meaningfulness of human life is to ask under which conditions persons ask in earnest for assistance to die, either through euthanasia or physician assisted suicide
- 17th and 18th Century Theories of Emotions gt; Hobbes on the . . .
Hobbes does allow that there are “passions that incline men to peace,” e g , “the fear of death, desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtain them” (Leviathan 13 14)
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