num_pages: 310
description: How do we picture ourselves dying? A 'death with dignity', the darkened room, and a few murmured farewells? Or in the lights' flashing, siren wailing, chest-pumping maelstrom of the back of an ambulance hurtling towards an ER? Over the last decade, the two most robust vehicles of popular film and television, have opted for the latter scenario. This book examines the hi-tech death of the twenty-first century as enacted in our hospitals and as portrayed on our TV screens.
language: English
title: The Contemporary Deathbed: The Ultimate Rush
titlecomplete: The Contemporary Deathbed: The Ultimate Rush (Language, Discourse, Society)
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan