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Biathanatos

Work by John Donne

Biathanatos (from Greek Βιαθανατος meaning "violent death") is a prose work by the English writer and clergyman John Donne. Written in 1608 and published

Biathanatos

John Donne

English poet and cleric (1572–1631)

the burial expenses. During this time, Donne wrote but did not publish Biathanatos, his defence of suicide. His wife died on 15 August 1617, five days after

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Suicide

Intentional act causing one's own death

suicide slowly began to shift during the Renaissance. John Donne's work Biathanatos contained one of the first modern defences of suicide, bringing proof

Suicide

History of suicide

Utopia, punished by the denial of funerary rites. John Donne's work Biathanatos contained one of the first modern defenses of suicide, bringing proof

History of suicide

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Jean Bodin

French jurist and political philosopher (c. 1530–1596)

the works, but doesn't reference them. John Donne cited Bodin in his Biathanatos. Bodin's view of parallelism of French and English monarchies was accepted

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Margaret Battin

Philosopher and medical scientist

and David J. Mayo, St. Martin's, 1980, ISBN 9780720605792 John Donne, Biathanatos, a modern-spelling critical edition, Michael Rudick and Margaret P. Battin

Margaret Battin

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John Adams (Provost of King's College, Cambridge)

English churchman

published in 1700 "An Essay on Self-Murther," a reply to John Donne's "Biathanatos," demonstrating that suicide was in no way natural to the human psyche

John Adams (Provost of King's College, Cambridge)

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