Table of Contents:
The medical definition of death / A. Keith Mant
Philosophical concepts of death / Ninian Smart
The dying and the doctor / John Hinton
Death and the young / Simon Yudkin
Traditional attitudes towards death / Arnold Toynbee
Attitudes towards death in eastern religions / Ninian Smart
Death in the Judaeo-Christian tradition / Ninian Smart
Changing attitudes towards death in the modern Western world / Arnold Toynbee
Some inadequacies of recent Christian thought about death / Ninian Smart
Death and the decline of religion in Western society / Ninian Smart
Death in war / Arnold Toynbee
Increased longevity and the decline of infant mortality / Arnold Toynbee
Death in twentieth-century fiction / Eric Rhode
Perspectives from time, space and nature / Arnold Toynbee
Attitudes to death in the light of dreams and other out-of-the-body experience / Rosalind Heywood
Death and psychical research / Rosalind Heywood
What kind of next world? / H.H. Price
The relation between life and death, living and dying / Arnold Toynbee.