A commonsense book of death
Subtitle: reflections at ninety of a lifelong thanatologist
By: Edwin Shneidman.
Edition: [New ed.].
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780742563315
Subjects: Death -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Act one 1973 : extended excerpts from Deaths of man; title: Part I: The dying person-and after; title: Introduction; title: Death work and stages of dying; title: An appropriate death; title: Postvention and the survivor-victim; title: The postself; title: Part II: Views of death; title: Personal and impersonal aspects of death; title: Ambivalence and subintention; title: Part III: Medico-legal aspects of death; title: Death and the state; title: The death certificate; title: The psychological autopsy; title: Part IV: Dimensions of death; title: Megadeath : children of the nuclear family; title: Afterword; title: Intermission 2005 : a retrospective review of Deaths of man; title: Brewster Smith; title: Act two 2008 : revised thoughts of Deaths of man, thirty-five years later; title: One fundamental attribute of death : on and off; title: Two basic orientations toward death : mine and yours; title: Three stances toward death : intentioned, subintentioned, unintentioned; title: Four traditional categories of death : natural, accident, suicide, homicide; title: Clarifying equivocal deaths; title: A psychological autopsy in a military setting; title: An appropriate death : criteria for a good-enough death; title: Commonalities of suicide : a cubic model; title: The coarsening of death : postvention; title: The postself : survival after death.