| Description |
1 online resource (350 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Re-Imaging Death and Dying -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Re-Imaging Death and Dying -- PART I: Philosophical Re-Imaging -- Pragmatic Immortality and the Insignificance Of My Own Death -- Concepts of Value: Attitudes toward Death -- There Is Good Hope That Death Is a Blessing -- Dignity of the Dead? -- The Haunt: Demons and The Complex of Noon -- The Concept of Death in Children's and Juvenile Literature: Reading and Interpreting Death in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak -- 'I want to live before I die:' Exploring Teenagers' Attitude Towards Death in Jenny Downham's Before I Die |
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The Confrontation with Death from Rilke to Heidegger -- Burial Law as Viewpoint towards Death -- To Death -- To Life: Grounding Sigurd Lewerentz and Erik Gunnar Asplund's Tallum Cemetery -- Heroic Death and Selective Memory: The U.S.'s WWII Memorial & The U.S.S.R.'s Monument to The Heroic Defenders of Leningrad -- Rethinking and Recognizing Genocide: The British and the Case of the Great Irish Potato Famine -- Death in Self-Harmers' Eyes -- PART II:Communication Re-Imaging -- Analysis of Terminally Ill Patients' Weblogs Using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) Program |
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Archiving Grief: (Re) Writing Histories in the Aftermath of Loss -- Communicating with the Dead through the Newspaper: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis -- Agencies of the Afterlife: Weblogs and Television Shows on Death in the Netherlands -- PART III: Ethical Re-Imaging -- Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Supreme Court: A Decade in the Life of a Constitutional Issue That's' Not Dead Yet' -- The Ethics of Patient Non-Treatment -- What's Wrong with the Brain Death Debate? -- Death & Justice: An Ethical Response to Massacre -- Kantian Obligatory Suicide: Further Developments |
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PART IV: Experiencing Re-Imaging -- 'I'd Rather Be Home All My Life': Older People and Place Care at the End of Life -- Waiting for Death: An Exploration of Suicide and Old Age in Ireland -- To Worship God or Celebrate a Life: Conflicting Scottish Perspectives on Funerals -- Quasi-Widowhood: Crossing Boundaries of Marriage, Divorce, and Death -- The Survivor's Guilt: The Case of Cancer -- Bereaved Employees, Professional Activity and Pain of Loss |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Death -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Steffen, Lloyd
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| ISBN |
9781904710820 |
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1904710824 |
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