VOLUME 19
Death and Mortality:
From Individual to
Communal Perspectives
Edited by Outi Hakola, Sara Heinämaa & Sami Pihlström
Published in 2015
by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies P.O. Box 4 (Fabianinkatu 24)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki Finland
ISSN 1796-2986
ISBN 978-951-51-1763-2
© Editors & Contributors 2015
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COLLeGIUM: Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Cover picture: Parland Memorial at Hietaniemi cemetery, Helsinki. Photograph Outi Hakola.
Death and Mortality:
From Individual to Communal Perspectives
Edited by Outi Hakola, Sara Heinämaa and Sami Pihlström
Introduction: Human and Social Scientific Approaches to Death and Mortality 1 Outi Hakola
Emotions, Grief, and Reality-Unreality in Human Mortality 10 Douglas J. Davies
Human Death as a Concept of Practical Philosophy 32
Andrea Marlen Esser
Elvis Ain’t Dead Until We Say So 48
John P. Lizza
Form versus Matter: Miraculous Relics and Lenin’s Scientific Body 61 Alexei Yurchak
How to Deal with the Restless Dead? Discernment of Spirits and the Response to
Ghosts in Fifteenth-Century Europe 82
Kathryn Edwards
The Many Senses of Death: Phenomenological Insights into Human Death 100 Sara Heinämaa
Death and Guilt: A Transcendental Account 118
Sami Pihlström
License to Die? The Meaning and Moral Permissibility of Voluntary Death 138 Hanna Ronikonmäki
“The State as a Murderer”: The Death Penalty and Just Authority in the Late Tsarist Empire 155 Anna Lenkewitz
Soldier’s Death and the Logic of Sacrifice 179
Ilona Pajari
Death, Killing, and War 202
Jeff McMahan
List of Contributors 214
