Death, Society, and Human Experience

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1138292400
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1138292406
• Author: Robert Kastenbaum (Author)

Providing an overview of the myriad ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as an individual and as a member of society, this book will help readers understand our relationship with death. Kastenbaum and Moreman show how various ways that individual and societal attitudes influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss. This landmark text draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage of understanding death and the dying process. Death, Society, and Human Experience was originally written by Robert Kastenbaum, a renowned scholar who developed one of the world’s first death education courses. Christopher Moreman, who has worked in the field of death studies for almost two decades specializing in afterlife beliefs and experiences, has updated this edition.

Table contents:

1. As we think about death
2. What is death?
3. Denial or adaptation: the death system
4. Dying
5. Hospice and palliative care
6. End-of-life issues and decisions
7. Suicide
8. Violent death : murder, terrorism, genocide, disaster, and accident
9. Euthanasia, assisted death, abortion, and the right to die
10. Death in the world of childhood
11. Bereavement, grief, and mourning
12. The funeral process
13. Do we survive death?
14. How can we help?
15. Good life, good death?