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Bezig met laden... Will the Circle Be Unbroken (origineel 2001; editie 2001)door Studs Terkel (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkWill the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith door Studs Terkel (2001)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Kathy Fagan Studs Terkel ((1912-2008) was an asthmatic sickly child who outlived every member of his family, his beloved wife Ida (M=44), and most of his peers, dying after a bad fall at age 96. Famous for flunking the bar exam and interviewing people on radio, about their Work. At age Terkel took on the topic of death, which, curiously, most people do not want to discuss. Death, and the wild speculations about "after life", is a universal certainty. This book contains 60-plus interviews of mostly regular folks--from the religious to the atheistic with no expectation of "rebirth". Their life stories and speculations about the afterlife are ventilated by one of the great "listeners" of radio experience. Includes a few well-known figures -- Kurt Vonnegut, radio journalist Ira Glass, and folksinger Doc Watson (of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band fame - bluegrass album "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"). Others, as artists, medics, and clergymen, and parents speaking of losing family members and friends. Some tell of personal encounters with heavenly voices and apparitions and "out of body" views. Terkel does not interject himself much here, but somewhere I recall him saying -- maybe -- he defined himself as "a cowardly atheist" during a 2004 interview with Krista Tippett on American Public Media's "Speaking of Faith". A gift from Uncle Mody, this is a revealing set of Studs Terkel's oral interviews with a wide range of people on the topic of death, and what might come after. Here are interviews with doctors, ministers, atheists and agnostics, soldiers, funeral directors, those who came back from dying, death-row inmates, AIDS victims and helpers, parents who have lost their children, and one with a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing. Fascinating stuff, and mostly touched with a quiet optimism that this life is not the end. I'm reminded by the near-death survivors who "died" on the operating table and reported floating above their bodies, of a scientific experiment I read about recently that might provide some evidence: The researchers will place in the operating rooms a simple and easily-remembered graphic, which can only be seen from above the operating table. After any surgical near-death experiences, those who recount floating above their bodies will be asked if they can recall seeing the graphic. As a man of science, I'm quite interested to see the results someday. Until then, these stories are sufficiently fascinating. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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One of Studs Terkel's most important oral histories, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? turns to the ultimate human experience-that of death. Called ""extraordinary?a work of insight, wisdom, and freshness"" by the Seattle Times when it was first published fifteen years ago, the book explores-with unrivaled compassion and wisdom-the indelible variety of reactions to mortality and the experience of death and the possibility of life afterward. Here a wide range of people addresses the unknowable culmination of our lives and its impact on the way we live, with memorable grace and poignancy. Included in Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)128.5Philosophy and Psychology Philosophy Of Humanity The Human Condition DeathLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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