'Making Sense Of: Dying and Death' is an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research project which seeks to engage in creative and innovative dialogues in focusing on the links between living and dying, and some of the contradictions and paradoxes which arise that we appear to accept without question.Areas of interest will focus on different kinds of dying and death, the experience of carers and care workers, the changing role of medicine, palliative care, the work of the hospice movement, the work of the funeral industry, and the nature of grief and mourning. Interest will also focus on philosophical, ethical, and legal issues which surround the processes of dying and death, the role of religion, and the diverse range of historical, social, and cultural perspectives and practices.
Table of contents:
Andrew FAGAN: Introduction
Asa KASHER: Life in the Heart
Darlene FOZARD WEAVER: Sorrow Unconsoling and Inconsolable Sorrow: Grief as a Moral and Religious Practice
Clarice FORD: Understanding Our Pain: The Experiences of African American Women Through the Death and Dying Process
Kate ARTHUR: Terror of Death in the Wake of September 11th: Is this the End of Death Denial?
David JOHNSON: Kafka's God Of Suffocation: The Futility Of 'Facing' Death
Heather McKENZIE: Personal and Collective Fears of Death: A Complex Intersection for Cancer Survivors
Mira CROUCH: Last Matters: The Latent Meanings of Contemporary Funeral Rites
Vera KALITZKUS: Neither Dead-Nor-Alive: Organ Donation and the Paradox of 'Living Corpses'
Andrew FAGAN: Avoidable Death: Multiculturalism and Respecting Patient Autonomy
Roger S MAGNUSSON: The "Euthanasia Underground" and its Implications for the Harm Minimization Debate: an Australian Perspective
Clare Emily CLIFFORD: "Suicides Have a Special Language": Practicing Literary Suicide with Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and John Berryman
Gary PETERS: Time To Die: The Temporality of Death and the Philosophy of Singularity
Table of contents:
Andrew FAGAN: Introduction
Asa KASHER: Life in the Heart
Darlene FOZARD WEAVER: Sorrow Unconsoling and Inconsolable Sorrow: Grief as a Moral and Religious Practice
Clarice FORD: Understanding Our Pain: The Experiences of African American Women Through the Death and Dying Process
Kate ARTHUR: Terror of Death in the Wake of September 11th: Is this the End of Death Denial?
David JOHNSON: Kafka's God Of Suffocation: The Futility Of 'Facing' Death
Heather McKENZIE: Personal and Collective Fears of Death: A Complex Intersection for Cancer Survivors
Mira CROUCH: Last Matters: The Latent Meanings of Contemporary Funeral Rites
Vera KALITZKUS: Neither Dead-Nor-Alive: Organ Donation and the Paradox of 'Living Corpses'
Andrew FAGAN: Avoidable Death: Multiculturalism and Respecting Patient Autonomy
Roger S MAGNUSSON: The "Euthanasia Underground" and its Implications for the Harm Minimization Debate: an Australian Perspective
Clare Emily CLIFFORD: "Suicides Have a Special Language": Practicing Literary Suicide with Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and John Berryman
Gary PETERS: Time To Die: The Temporality of Death and the Philosophy of Singularity