Sam Silverman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4214869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Silverman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Silverman |
| SIGNATURE | SILVERMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lexington, Massachusetts |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Death of Socrates
Socrates' death, as portrayed by Plato, and commonly accepted, is seen as the virtuous choice of a philosopher of death in preference to ignominiously evading an unjust verdict of the jury. Xenophon's portrayal, the only other contemporaneous account, shows Socrates as being tired of life, seeing nothing worthwhile in hanging on to a continuously declining life, and deliberately choosing death. In more recent years I. F. Stone has discussed in de…
Ben-Joshua Dying
Ben-Joshua Jaffee, a professionally trained social worker, was diagnosed with progressive bulbar palsy in December 2000. Subsequently, in April 2001 and February 2002, he sent two e-mails to the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement, a professional group of which he was a member. In these e-mails he described the course of his illness, his feelings, and how he coped with it. These powerful documents are a rare instance of the d…
Trollope's The Fixed Period
Anthony Trollope's 1882 novel, The Fixed Period, posits a state in which the elderly, at the age of sixty-seven, are to be deposited in a “college,” there to spend a year being taken care of in preparation for their disposal by cremation by having their veins cut before the age of sixty-eight. Justification for this euthanasia is the anticipated ills of old age and the economic benefits to the state of disposing of no longer productive citizens w…
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Trollope's The Fixed Period
Anthony Trollope's 1882 novel, The Fixed Period, posits a state in which the elderly, at the age of sixty-seven, are to be deposited in a “college,” there to spend a year being taken care of in preparation for their disposal by cremation by having their veins cut before the age of sixty-eight. Justification for this euthanasia is the anticipated ills of old age and the economic benefits to the state of disposing of no longer productive citizens w…
Ben-Joshua Dying
Ben-Joshua Jaffee, a professionally trained social worker, was diagnosed with progressive bulbar palsy in December 2000. Subsequently, in April 2001 and February 2002, he sent two e-mails to the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement, a professional group of which he was a member. In these e-mails he described the course of his illness, his feelings, and how he coped with it. These powerful documents are a rare instance of the d…
The Death of Socrates
Socrates' death, as portrayed by Plato, and commonly accepted, is seen as the virtuous choice of a philosopher of death in preference to ignominiously evading an unjust verdict of the jury. Xenophon's portrayal, the only other contemporaneous account, shows Socrates as being tired of life, seeing nothing worthwhile in hanging on to a continuously declining life, and deliberately choosing death. In more recent years I. F. Stone has discussed in de…
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