Will the circle be unbroken?
Subtitle: reflections on death, rebirth, and hunger for a faith
By: Studs Terkel.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9781565846920
Subjects: Death.; Death -- Religious aspects.; Attitude to Death.; Religion.
Description: "At the age of 88, Studs Terkel has turned to the ultimate human experience, that of death and the possibility of life afterward. Death is the one experience we all share but cannot know. In Will the Circle Be Unbroken? a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the way we live. In talking about the ultimate and unknowable culmination of our lives, they give voice to their deepest beliefs and hopes, reflecting on the lives they have led and what still lies before them.

For the first time Terkel addresses the whole realm of religious belief and of expectations of an afterlife, including reincarnation, and discovers an extraordinary range and complexity of experience and of belief.".

"As in Working and Coming of Age, Studs Terkel tackles an issue bound up with all of our lives, yet rarely discussed on its own terms. From a Hiroshima survivor to an AIDS caseworker, from a death-row parolee to a woman who emerged from a two-year coma, these interviewees find an eloquence and grace in dealing with a topic many of us have yet to discuss openly and freely.".

"Terkel also interviews the vast array of people who confront death in their everyday lives, whether as police, firefighters, emergency health workers, doctors, or nurses. Many of the most moving interviews deal with AIDS, and how the disease has devastated whole communities and forced people to face death at the young ages we associate with centuries past."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Tom Gates, a retired fireman --; title: Bob Gates, a retired police officer --; title: Dr. Joseph Messer --; title: Dr. Sharon Sandell --; title: Dr. John Barrett --; title: Marc and Noreen Levison, a paramedic and a nurse --; title: Lloyd (Pete) Haywood, a former gangbanger --; title: Claire Hellstern, a nurse --; title: Ed Reardon, a paramedic --; title: Robert Soreghan, a homicide detective --; title: Delbert Lee Tibbs, a former death-row inmate --; title: Dr. Frank Raila --; title: Haskell Wexler, a cinematographer --; title: Tammy Snider, a Hiroshima survivor (hibakusha) --; title: V.I.M. (Victor Israel Marquez, a Vietnam vet --; title: Angelina Rossi, his mother --; title: Guadalupe Reyes, a mother --; title: Rev. Willie T. Barrow --; title: Father Leonard Dubi --; title: Rabbi Robert Marx --; title: Pastor Tom Kok --; title: Rev. Ed Townley --; title: Rick Rundle, a city sanitation worker --; title: Randy Beuscher, an associate architect --; title: Chaz Ebert, a lawyer --; title: Antoinette Korotko-Hatch, a church worker --; title: Karen Thompson, a student --; title: Dimitri Mihalas, an astronomer and physicist --; title: Hank Oettinger, a retired printer --; title: Ira Glass, a radio journalist --; title: Kid Pharaoh, a retired "collector" --; title: Quinn Brisben, a retired teacher --; title: Kurt Vonnegut, a writer --; title: Bruce Bendinger, an advertising executive and writer --; title: Doc Watson, a folksinger --; title: Vernon Jarrett, a journalist --; title: Peggy Terry, a retired mountain woman --; title: Bessie Jones, a Georgia Sea Island Singer (1972) --; title: Rosalie Sorrels, a traveling folksinger --; title: Tico Valle, a young man --; title: Lori Cannon, "curator" of the Open Hand Society --; title: Brian Matthews, an ex-bartender, writer for a gay weekly --; title: Jewell Jenkins, a hospital aide --; title: Justin Hayford, a journalist, musician --; title: Matta Kelly, a case manager --; title: Jim Hapgood --; title: Nancy Lanoue --; title: Dr. Gary Slutkin --; title: William Warfield, a singer and teacher --; title: Uta Hagen, an actress --; title: Mick Betancourt --; title: Carlos Cortez, a painter and poet --; title: Vine Deloria, a writer and teacher --; title: Helen Sclair, a cemetery familiar --; title: Steve Young, a father --; title: Maurine Young, a mother --; title: William Herdegen, an undertaker --; title: Rory Moina, a hospice nurse --; title: Mamie Mobley, a mother --; title: Dr. Marvin Jackson, a son --; title: Kathy Fagan and Linda Gagnon, mothers.