false <![CDATA[Death With Interruptions]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255640005m/3018539.jpg 3018539 28 On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration -— flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home —- families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots. Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small <i>d</i>,became human and were to fall in love? 317973 book 2005 As intermitencias da morte total:1017|5:248|4:384|3:265|2:78|1:36| 1017 3787 2089 261 5 3 false false Mon Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 07:37:06 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 14:20:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 05:34:52 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 05:45:24 -0800 2009 No es sólo la visión hipotética del mundo dónde se hace reprimenda a los que codiciamos la vida eterna, sino un v...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 05:16:34 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 05:22:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 18:02:55 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 11:45:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Apr 12 14:35:16 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 15:50:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Dec 14 21:32:14 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 13 19:22:58 -0700 2009
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It's great! How can someone imagine a place where death no longer happens and how it rearranges the entire society! And also with a sense of humor.
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Saramago beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, was passieren würde, wenn keiner mehr sterben würde - die Probleme in der Kranken-/Altenpflege, Lebensversicherungen, und unweigerlich ko...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 06:03:51 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 14:26:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 23 12:56:26 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 13:03:33 -0800 2008

This witty and deeply moving story begins one day when people stop dying. The series of events that follow are perfectly believable -- complaints to the government from funeral directors reduced to pet burials and from church officials who ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 02 13:34:02 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 20:06:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 16:28:27 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 16:55:05 -0700 2009 1 Everybody Poops.

This is a beautifully written book divided into two equally interesting sections. The first deals with what would happen if no one died on New Year's Day. Or the next day, or the next, etc. Wh...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3018539