title: [Eros, Thanatos and a cloned child].
abstract: The paper discusses and confirms the opinion that modern Western European culture is characterised by a high level of fear of death, which shows all features of a thanatic crisis. This is a consequence of wearing-out of culture-made means used to alleviate the fear induced by human finity. In this situation, modern societies put more and more hope in supported procreation and cloning of Homo sapiens as methods of reducing thanatic fears.
authors.affiliation: Akademia Medyczna w Lodzi, Zaklad Etyki i Filozofii Medycyny, al. Kosciuszki, 90-436 Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Szewczyk
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D002962:Civilization; D019976:Cloning, Organism; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003469:Culture; D005239:Fear / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011593:Psychology, Social; D011788:Quality of Life; D013795:Thanatology