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Schweid, Richard Hereafter : Searching for Immortality
Da Capo Press 2006 1560256575 / 9781560256571 Paperback Fine n/a Paperback
New. Fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.As long as we have existed, we have wondered what happens when we die. Each generation must confront its fear and helplessness in the face of the fact that this self, which takes so much effort to construct and inhabit and nurture, this body that we've worn and washed and lived in, is likely to last, from start to finish, considerably less than a century. Responses to the prospect of dying take three principal forms: some believe that we shall be resurrected to pass eternity with intact bodies as the same people we were during our earthly sojourns; some believe that what survives is a "soul," or an essence, which leaves behind forever the dead and decomposing receptacle in which it resided; and some believe that death erases our snowflake lives entirely. Author Richard Schweid augments his research with interviews with theologians, farmers, medical examiners, preachers, rabbis, and imams. About the Author Richard Schweid was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and now lives in Barcelona, Spain, where he is senior editor of the magazine Barcelona Metropolitan. His books include Che's Chevrolet: Fidel's Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba; Consider the Eel (winner, best sci-tech book of 2002, Library Journal); Catfish and the Delta: Confederate Fish Farming in the Mississippi Delta; Hot Peppers: The Story of Cajuns and Capsicum; and The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore.
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