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The apprehension of an individual that his or her life will be ended in the immediate future by a particular illness the person i...
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. Steven Sebring's beautiful documentary about the incantatory rocker and poet is, both wittingly and poignantly, immersed in the contemplation of death.
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... tax during life or toward estate tax after death. 2010(a), 2505(a). The $30,000 exemption for gifts... in the estate all gifts made "in contemplation of death," which presumptively included all gifts ...
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To conclude, [Vladimir Spivakov] moved to pre-Soviet Russia with Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 6." A serious hearing of this work always reveals this underrespected composer's capacity for reckless innovation in symphonic writing. I liked the way Spivakov eschewed space between the movements and treated them as a powerful continuum. This pointed up the nervous lilt of the second movement's jerky almost-waltz and the forced bravado of the third's roof-raising march, each as enfolded within the real meat of the work: the emotional overpowering of traditional sonata-form in the first movement and the tragic despair of the last. I thought of Schubert's final major works, so different stylistically, but equally frightening as a composer's contemplation of imminent death - a dimension of the sc...
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... tax purposes as a transfer in contemplation of death. Depreciation in the amount of $750 per y...
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Ayelet Waldman's requisite 15 minutes in the spotlight of fame- or notoriety - came when she wrote an article that proclaimed, in the bland formulation she puts near the beginning of this book, that "I loved my husband more than my children." Well, one of the reasons that her utterance made the splash that it did was that there was a little more to it than that. What really shocked people was her going on to say that while she could live with the dreadful possibility of one of her children dying, contemplation of her husband's death was so horrible to her as to be totally catastrophic. Now we have a 200-page book that is, in ways both intended and not, an amplification of this vexed pronouncement. In all sorts of respects, it puts the comment into perspective, allowing us to understand ...
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Nelson Mandela "could never have become the political and moral leader he became had it not been for the suffering he experienced on Robben Island... so much anger was replaced by forgiveness that he invited his former jailer to be a VIP guest at his inauguration." "Suffering is often how we grow." So, he doesn't present an easy picture or an easy way. He has been criticized often, both inside and outside the church, for being "too political" but his response to that is to say, "I'm not being political, I'm being religious." His new book, which describes God's dream for mankind -- and doesn't insist that the god in question has to be a Christian God -- is exhilarating reading for anyone who had a hard time coming to grips with the pain of the contemporary world. No, it's not easy, Desmo...
... of subjects -- family life, sex, contemplation, action, how to deal with arrogance, pain, death; ...
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... the decedent within two years prior to his death, were made in contemplation of death and should be...
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While Fink claims that a thorough unfolding of the reduction leads back to a "region" of pre-being (Vor-sein) in which all human possibilities, including those of knowing and speaking, are ultimately constituted, Heidegger insists that, at bottom, me reduction discloses Dasein's Being-in-the-world as the ground behind which it is impossible to inquire. [...] while Heidegger insists mat the performance of the reduction must ultimately be understood as a human possibility, Fink wants to claim that the entire sphere of human possibilities and all concern with the meaning of being is to be understood against the horizon of the pre-being to which transcendental subjectivity ultimately refers. [...] yet, I would suggest that there is at least one point of contact between Heidegger and Fink ...
... to say it discloses Dasein's Being-towards-death or the fact that its being is limited such that it... could entail anything other than contemplation of one's own death. The problem can also be though...
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Before you mentally depart for New Year's jubilee, with visions of change and a happier, healthier future dancing in your head, let me depress you. Spike your eggnog with this - a contemplation of aging, infirmity and ultimate death.
For those attuned to so-called last things, 2006 was, in its grim way, an encouragement.