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Abstract
This collection deals with complex issues relating to death such as ‘mercy killings’, the ‘right to die’ and murder. the relationship will always be controversial. This timely and provocative collection brings together scholars from Australia, Britain and the US.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Acknowledgements | vii | ||
| Introduction: Tales from the Crypt - A Metaphor, An Image, A Story | 1 | ||
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 15 | ||
| NOTES | 16 | ||
| Part One. In Extremis | 17 | ||
| 1. Death as the Horizon of the Law | 19 | ||
| INTRODUCTION: LIMITING THE LAW | 19 | ||
| SCENES FROM THE EXECUTION | 21 | ||
| DEATH AND THE DECOMPOSITION OF JUDICIAL DISCOURSE | 25 | ||
| CONCLUSION: THE LIMITLESS LIMIT | 30 | ||
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 30 | ||
| NOTES | 31 | ||
| 2. Et Lex Perpetua: Dying Declarations and the Terror of Süssmayr | 34 | ||
| INTRODUCTION | 34 | ||
| A | 37 | ||
| I | 37 | ||
| II | 39 | ||
| B | 40 | ||
| I | 40 | ||
| II | 44 | ||
| C | 45 | ||
| I | 45 | ||
| II | 47 | ||
| CONCLUSION | 49 | ||
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 50 | ||
| NOTES | 51 | ||
| 3. Killing Me Softly: Capital Punishment and the Technologies for Taking Life | 53 | ||
| INTRODUCTION | 53 | ||
| DOING DEATH SILENTLY, INVISIBLY | 56 | ||
| ON THE INVISIBLE BODY OF THE CONDEMNED | 59 | ||
| THE 'BODY IN PAIN' | 61 | ||
| CONCLUSION | 68 | ||
| NOTES | 70 | ||
| 4. The Sanctity of Death: Poetry and the Law and Ethics of Euthanasia | 77 | ||
| INTRODUCTION | 77 | ||
| ETHICS AND AESTHETICS: A POEM, AND AN ESSAY ON POETRY | 81 | ||
| CONCLUSION | 88 | ||
| NOTES | 89 | ||
| Part Two. Post Mortem | 93 | ||
| 5. 'But a Lump of Earth'?: The Legal Status of the Corpse | 95 | ||
| A LEGAL HISTORY OF THE CORPSE | 96 | ||
| Enter the Body Snatchers | 98 | ||
| The 'Right' of Burial: Possession and Disposal of the Corpse | 100 | ||
| More Property than Person? | 102 | ||
| THEORISING THE CORPSE | 104 | ||
| POSTSCRIPT: A COHERENT VIEW OF THE COMPLETE PERSON? | 106 | ||
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 106 | ||
| NOTES | 106 | ||
| 6. Bodily Remains in the Cemetery and the Burial Ground: A Comparative Anthropology of Law and Death or How Long Can I Stay? | 111 | ||
| ARCHAEOLOGY AND ABORIGINAL REMAINS | 112 | ||
| THE ENGLISH BACKGROUND TO THE LAW OF BODILY REMAINS | 113 | ||
| AUSTRALIAN ATTITUDES | 115 | ||
| CHARACTERISING THE RIGHT TO REMAIN ONCE BURIED | 115 | ||
| ABORIGINAL VIEWS | 118 | ||
| RESOLVING CONFLICTS WITH ARCHAEOLOGY | 119 | ||
| LEGAL CONTROL OF ABORIGINAL BURIAL SITES | 120 | ||
| LAW, PERCEPTIONS OF MORTALITY AND THE FUTURE | 122 | ||
| NOTES | 123 | ||
| 7. Did He Fall or Was He Pushed?: Inquiring into Pitjantjatjara Deaths | 128 | ||
| DEATH AND THE POLICE | 130 | ||
| DEATH AND THE PITJANTJATJARA | 135 | ||
| Ritual Inquest: The Aboriginal Coronial Method | 137 | ||
| The Process of Ritual Inquest | 140 | ||
| CONCLUSION: DID HE FALL OR WAS HE PUSHED? | 141 | ||
| NOTES | 145 | ||
| 8. Pro Patria Mori: Law, Reconciliation and the Nation | 148 | ||
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 159 | ||
| NOTES | 159 | ||
| Part Three. Memento Mori | 161 | ||
| 9. Law Deathbound: Antigone and the Dialectics of Nomos and Thanatos | 163 | ||
| I | 163 | ||
| II | 164 | ||
| III | 168 | ||
| IV | 172 | ||
| NOTES | 179 | ||
| 10. The Ethical Obligation to Show Allegiance to the Un- knowable | 181 | ||
| THE DEATH OF MY OTHER AND THE SURVIVING ME: : NONSENSE AND SENSIBILITY | 181 | ||
| LEGAL VISION AND THE APPROPRIATION OF DEATH S ABSURDITY | 183 | ||
| THE OTHER AS 'LIVING-THING' AND LEGAL CLOSURE | 185 | ||
| BEYOND THE KNOWLEDGE AND DESIRE OF THE LIVING- THING : RUPTURE OF LEGAL CLOSURE | 188 | ||
| NOTES | 191 | ||
| 11. Stephen Dedalus' Magic Words: Death and the Law between James Joyce and Pierre Legendre | 194 | ||
| INTRODUCTION | 194 | ||
| INSTITUTING LAW: DEATH, DESIRE AND THE VOID | 196 | ||
| WRITING AND THE CONSTITUTING VOID: THE EPIPHANY | 198 | ||
| DEATH AND A Portrait | 202 | ||
| WRITING THE REVOLT | 207 | ||
| 'THE DEAD: DEATH, LOVE AND THE COUNTER- LAW | 209 | ||
| ENDNOTE | 212 | ||
| NOTES | 212 | ||
| 12. Courting Death | 216 | ||
| NOTES | 230 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 233 | ||
| Index | 235 | ||
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 [Cth] | 112 |