Making sense of dying and death / edited by Andrew Fagan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fagan, Andrew, 1966-

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 9.

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Attitude to Death.

Death.

Fear of death.

Reason.

Medical Subjects:

Attitude to Death.

Physical Description:

229 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2004.

Contents:

Life in the heart / Asa Kasher

Sorrow unconsoling and inconsolable sorrow : grief as a moral and religious practice / Darlene Fozard Weaver

Understanding our pain : the experiences of African American women through the death and dying process / Clarice Ford

Terror of death in the wake of September 11th : is this the end of death denial? / Kate Arthur

Kafka's God of suffocation : the futility of 'facing' death / David Johnson

Personal and collective fears of death : a complex intersection for cancer survivors / Heather McKenzie

Last matters : the latent meanings of contemporary funeral rites / Mira Crouch

Neither dead-nor-alive : organ donation and the paradox of 'living corpses' / Vera Kalitzkus

Avoidable death : multiculturalism and respecting patient autonomy / Andrew Fagan

The "euthanasia underground" and its implications for the harm minimization debate : an Australian perspective / Roger S. Magnusson

"Suicides have a special language" : practicing literary suicide with Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and John Berryman / Clare Emily Clifford

Time to die : the temporality of death and the philosophy of singularity / Gary Peters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9042016418

OCLC:

55682749