Remember me : constructing immortality : beliefs on immortality, life, and death / edited by Margaret Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitchell, Margaret, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Bereavement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Much of the literature speaks of healthy bereavement as letting go of the deceased and moving forward with life. This title challenges that notion, discussing the meaning attributed to death and to the anticipation of death. It looks at the ways in which one's relationship with loved ones continues, endures, and perhaps even grows after death.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Constructing Immortality: The Role of the Dead in Everyday Life; Chapter 2: The Rebirth of Death: Continuing Relationships With the Dead; Chapter 3: Sustaining Kinship: Ritualization and the Disposal of Human Ashes in the United Kingdom; Chapter 4: "Rachel Comforted": Spiritualism and the Reconstruction of the Body After Death; Chapter 5: Collective Memory and Forgetting: Components for a Study of Obituaries; Chapter 6: Fever; Chapter 7: The Will: Inheritance Distribution and Feuding Families

Chapter 8: Complaints About Health Care in the United Kingdom Following a Person's DeathChapter 9: Knowing by Heart: Remembering Victims of Intrafamilial Homicide; Chapter 10: Psychosocial Death Following Traumatic Brain Injury; Chapter 11: Should Suicide Be Reported in the Media?: A Critique of Research; Chapter 12: Family Disputes, Dysfunction, and Division: Case Studies of Road Traffic Deaths; Chapter 13: Dark Tourism: The Role of Sites of Death in Tourism; Chapter 14: Immortality Work: Photographs as Memento Mori

Chapter 15: Art as Afterlife: Posthumous Self-Presentation by Eminent PaintersChapter 16: The Eternal Cadaver: Anatomy and Its Representation; Chapter 17: Representing Trauma: The Case for Troubling Images; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-92085-4

0-203-84454-8

1-281-09454-4

1-136-92086-2

9786611094546

0-203-94373-2

9780203844540

OCLC:

171133721