1 Although this article is not concerned with death per se, it is worth while drawing the reader's attention to the extensive literature written about the subject. I would like to mention here just a few works which are of special interest. P. Aries, in his Western Attitudes Toward from the Middle Ages to the Present (translated from French by P. M. Ranum), (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974), deals with attitudes toward death beginning with the knights in Europe (9, 10 centuries), going through the Middle Ages, and reaching our time. He devotes special attention to descriptions of death in belles-lettres and works of art. Examples of books devoted to motifs of death in art are R. van Marle, Iconographie de l'art profane au moyen dge et la renaissance, (New York: Hacher Art Books, 1971), vol. 2, chapter 5, and Gaby et Michel Vovelle, Vision de la mort et de l'au-delh en Provence d'apres les autels des ames du purgatoire xv'-xxe siecles (France, 1970). A contribution of quite a different nature is the collection of articles named Man's Concern with (McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969). Here death is treated from different points of view: philosophical, psychological, medical, religious and secular, western and eastern, ancient and modern. Another interesting research is revisited (parallels in death experience), OmegaThe Journal of and Dying, 9 (1978-79), pp. 1-11, by Frederick H. Holck. Here the author points out some common features concerning death shared in various societies and religions throughout history, and compares them with characteristic motives repeated in interviews with people who experienced temporary clinical death, as reported in Life after Life by Raymond A. Moody. For an anthropological-sociological approach to the subject of death see B. Malinowski, Magic, Science and Religion (Anchor Books, 1954): Life, and Destiny in Early Faith and Cult (especially pp. 47-53); and Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands (mainly pp. 149-154; 160-171). In addition to these, see the most informative, although very general, article in Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (vol. 4, pp. 411ff.), Death and Disposal of the Dead. 2 See, for example, A. A. Bevan, The Beliefs of Early Mohammedans Respecting a Future Existence, Journal of Theological Studies 6 (1904), pp. 20-36; R. Eklund, Life between and Resurrection according to Islam (Uppsala, 1941), Chapter 3; D. Galloway, The Resurrection and Judgement in the Qur'an, M.W. 12 (1922), pp. 348-372; M. S. Seale, An Arab's Concern with Life After Death, in Qur'an and Bible: Studies in Interpretation and Dialogue (London, 1978),