Making sense of dying and death /

Making sense of dying and death / edited by Andrew Fagan. - Amsterdam ; Rodopi, 2004. - 229 p. ; 22 cm. - At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 9. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Life in the heart / Sorrow unconsoling and inconsolable sorrow : grief as a moral and religious practice / Understanding our pain : the experiences of African American women through the death and dying process / Terror of death in the wake of September 11th : is this the end of death denial? / Kafka's God of suffocation : the futility of 'facing' death / Personal and collective fears of death : a complex intersection for cancer survivors / Last matters : the latent meanings of contemporary funeral rites / Neither dead-nor-alive : organ donation and the paradox of 'living corpses' / Avoidable death : multiculturalism and respecting patient autonomy / The "euthanasia underground" and its implications for the harm minimization debate : an Australian perspective / "Suicides have a special language" : practicing literary suicide with Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and John Berryman / Time to die : the temporality of death and the philosophy of singularity / Asa Kasher -- Darlene Fozard Weaver -- Clarice Ford -- Kate Arthur -- David Johnson -- Heather McKenzie -- Mira Crouch -- Vera Kalitzkus -- Andrew Fagan -- Roger S. Magnusson -- Clare Emily Clifford -- Gary Peters.

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Death.
Fear of death.
Reason.

BD444 / .M35 2004