The Ethics of Death: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives in Dialogue

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THE ETHICS OF DEATH THE ETHICS OF DEATH LLOYD STEFFEN AND DENNIS R. COOLEY Fortress Press Minneapolis THE ETHICS OF DEATH Religious and Philosophical Perspectives in Dialogue Copyright © 2014 Fortress Press. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Visit http://www.augsburgfortress.org/copyrights/ or write to Permissions, Augsburg Fortress, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440. Cover image: Aerial photograph of headstone and shadows/Cameron Davidson/Corbis Cover design: Laurie Ingram Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Print ISBN: 978-0-8006-9919-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4514-8757-2 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z329.48-1984. Manufactured in the U.S.A. This book was produced using PressBooks.com, and PDF rendering was done by PrinceXML. Dennis Cooley: To my sisters—Lori, Faith, and Ami Lloyd Steffen: To Samuel Atticus, Hannah, Paul and in memory of William “Bill” Ballou Cranshaw (1988–2011) ex morte amici magnus dolor nascitur ...