Paradigma morții extatice. O comparație sugestivă
The paradigm of ecstatic death. A suggestive comparison

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to analyse “attitudes towards death”, having as a theoretical perspective the concept of “noology” developed by academician Ilie Bădescu, and using a variety of documentary tools. Along with the professional experience from the “St. Irina” palliative care centre (developed by Dr. Pavel Chirilă), represented by assistance in the “passing to the Lord” of a significant number of patients, we will appeal to memorialistic, literary, patristic and anthropological sources which describe different attitudes towards death in the communist prisons, in literary works, in the monastic space and in the world of the Romanian peasant. Methodologically, apart from the conceptual introduction, these different hypostases of reporting to death, highlighted by the different documentary sources, will be analysed comparatively

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