Making sense of dying and death
By: edited by Andrew Fagan
Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries -- v. 9; At the interface/probing the boundaries -- v. 9.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781417564309
Subjects: Reason; Death; Attitude to Death; Fear of death; PHILOSOPHY; Humanism; Movements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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