With the idea of ​​“internal colonization” as features of Russian history, Alexander Etkind performed in the early 2000s. The most systematically it was formulated in the article “The burden of a thin person” [1] . Since the hypothesis expressed then did not find any wide response in the scientific community, a decade later he made a new attempt to popularize it.

“Domestic Notes”: Alexander Vladimirovich, why did you become a pathologist? Alexander Ediger [1] : Patanatomy, or rather, general pathology, is the most interesting area not only in medicine. This is generally the most interesting field of knowledge. I think so. And after thirty years, the result is the result in patho and seven thousand autopsy: if you watched the American film Alien, there is a certain character there ...

The book “Death, dying and transplantation of organs: reconstructing medical ethics of the end of life” is the result of a joint research project, carried out under the leadership of Dr. Franklin G. Miller from the National Institute of Health of the United States and professor of medical ethics, anesthesiology and pediatrics of the department of the Harvard Medical School of Robert D. Trouog.

Where we are in a hurry, this hell or a heavenly place, or simply darkness, darkness, it is all unknown, an expensive country, a constant object of a sinking, is it not love? No, it has no name. Joseph Brodsky What do we know about death? While we are alive - only one thing: all of us - sooner or later, one way or another - will die. Or, if you like, we will finish our physical existence in a given body.

Print Irina Glushkova Crowds of people are shaking on bumps in crowded buses or wandering under the burning sun along the dusty side of the high -bearing highway to rest in a multi -kilometer and many -hour queue. Contrary to their fatigue, their faces shine with a foreboding of grace, the experience of which is inspired by the centuries -old Hindu tradition. Where? For what?

Print Anna Sokolova The evolution of the funeral rite in Soviet Russia [2] “... among the city inhabitants, an obviously anti -Soviet and almost pogrom mood was created. This mood was still intensified by the fact that all the priests were striking, refusing to perform rituals and worship ” [3] , in this way, the correspondent of the Libber -Street newspaper“ The Bezbozhik ”describes the results of“ Popovskaya Stoke ”in Perm in 1918.

Jokes on the topic of death - the so -called black humor is a long tradition. Such jokes that sound on the stage or screen provide attention to the audience: they provoke disputes, attract fans of shocking. But in its modern form, the genre of black humor established himself not so long ago. Even the most innocent black humor does not like everyone.

The impulse to a serious religious search, the adoption of a particular faith and subsequent spiritual improvement is very often the fear of death. Its overcoming is the most important task of religious practice.

From the translator. The Russian translation does not convey the hidden sarcasm of the original title: Zijn (Zane) and Brein (Brain) rhymes, somewhat frivolously, involuntarily setting the reader in a playful way, and immediately pushes him with a frightening prospect of Alzheimer's disease. In an attempt to convey this mood, we allow ourselves a small translation libality, resorting to saving rhyme: we are our brain. From the uterus (determining principle) to Alzheimer (depressing berth).

In the opening word to the collection of works on the sociology of death, Anselm Strass outlined a very strange paradox, associated with this theme. On the one hand, the topic of death is taboo in modern society and there are few people who want to seriously discuss the features of dying. On the other hand, it is difficult to find any publication of mass media, on the pages of which data on murders, suicides, disasters and tragic cases were not published [1] .

Print Nikolay Khrenov Death in an existentialist interpretation In fact, the existentialists have become involuntary opponents of another direction and even another science, namely, the existent and affirming in the era of the popularity of existentialism of historical psychology.

A few entrance remarks In the Sunday trail, voice 4, we hear: the asked death [2] ... But, literally, these words will lead to the immediate closure of our seminar! Therefore, I will suggest, at least for now, not to understand them literally, and then, of course, the question arises: how do we understand these words? So, the task of our seminar is practical .

The small book of Daria Khalturina and Andrei Korotaeva is devoted to the demographic situation in post -Soviet Russia. The name of the book (“Russian Cross”) refers to the appearance of one of the diagrams given in the book and put on its cover - the most important for the authors - crossing curves, one of which depicts the drop in the birth rate, the other is the increase in mortality.

Print Vadim Mikhailin On the cognitive foundations of the semantic ligament beast/death Until recently, specialists in developmental psychology, based on the data received by Jean Piaget, as well as his colleagues and followers [1] , were inclined to the conclusion that children aged four to five years did not have a basic idea of ​​death.

The phenomenon of assignment of death in the Soviet tradition Print Galina Belyaeva , Vadim Mikhailin Now more than ever, we need ideological dead. Nikolai Erdman. Suicide The main event of Friedrich Ermler’s film “The Great Citizen” (1937, 1939), the vertex for the Stalinist cinematic canon, is the death of a protagonist, Peter Mikhailovich Shakhov: a death that itself is not indicative in the frame. It is preparing for a long time.