Abstract
Every culture considers death as an altered state of life. It is striking that in no recorded society, whether primitive or advanced, is death thought of as an actual termination of being. Some cultures conceptualize an afterlife as occurring in a geographical heaven or hell; others picture the dead as becoming free-dwelling spirits. Death may also be thought of as an eternal sleep or other altered state of consciousness, at times pleasant, at times uncomfortable.
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Blacher, R.S. (1982). The Fantasy of Resurrection and Rebirth in Cardiac Surgery Patients. In: Becker, R., Katz, J.M., Polonius, MJ., Speidel, H. (eds) Psychopathological and Neurological Dysfunctions Following Open-Heart Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68610-8_31
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