Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!m2c!jjmhome!lmann
From: lmann@jjmhome.UUCP (Laurie Mann)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.med
Subject: Re: Mortality
Summary: Try eschatology
Keywords: necrology?
Message-ID: <577@jjmhome.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 88 23:46:43 GMT
References: <36@feedme.UUCP>
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Xref: utzoo sci.bio:1236 sci.med:5742

In article <36@feedme.UUCP>, doug@feedme.UUCP (Doug Salot) writes:
> In pondering good topics of conversation for dinner parties, I
> suddenly realized that I don't know what that branch of science
> is called in which aging and death are studied (I don't believe
> gerontology is considered a research discipline).  Could someone
> enlighten me?  (I'm sure many of you could, but I mean specifically
> about the study of death.)

Y'know, I'm not so sure there IS a "branch of science...in which aging
and death are studied."  However, the branch of sociology/religion
in which death and dying are "studied" is called "eschatology."
Back in college 10 years ago, I took a college course called
"On Death and Dying" which was very interesting.

Perhaps since biology is literally "the science of life," scientists
are leery to formally study "death."  Mengele may have been the
last to study it with human subjects....... :-(

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