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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
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Shane McCorristine

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the legal concept of brain death. In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how …

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978-1-137-58328-4
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Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
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Floris Tomasini

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once li…

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978-1-137-53828-4
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Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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VII, 103