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Warren Zevon’s The Wind and Ecclesiastes: Searching for Meaning at the Threshold of Death

Author: Philip Browning Helsel

Published in: Journal of Religion and Health | Issue 2/2007

Abstract

Telling one's story itself brings purpose to ones life, and it is an essential part of coming to grips with death. The book of Ecclesiastes and Warren Zevon’s album The Wind express the hope for social immortality rather than an actual afterlife. Both of them are suffused with a sense of death-awareness, although their location in time and place and the genre of their expressions are quite different. By looking closely at these texts, one is able to ascertain certain aspects of life review which are necessary for wholeness and completion.

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Title: Warren Zevon’s The Wind and Ecclesiastes: Searching for Meaning at the Threshold of Death
Author: Philip Browning Helsel
Publication date: 01-06-2007
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Published in: Journal of Religion and Health / Issue 2/2007
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-006-9072-3

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