When someone dies indigent, homeless, disenfranchised from society, or without family or friends, there may be no easy path to resting in peace. With over half a million people experiencing homelessness in the US, Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins, is a timely book, bearing witness to disparities in death and dying faced by some of society’s most vulnerable and marginalized.
When someone dies indigent, homeless, disenfranchised from society, or without family or friends, there may be no easy path to resting in peace. With over half a million people experiencing homelessness in the US, Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins, is a timely book, bearing witness to disparities in death and dying faced by some of society’s most vulnerable and marginalized.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Amy Shea holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Her essays have appeared in The Missouri Review, Portland Review,The Massachusetts Review, the Journal ofSociology of Health & Illness, and others. She is the Writing Program Director for Mount Tamalpais College, a college for incarcerated people in San Quentin.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword by Jillian Olmsted Introduction
1 Remembering the Forgotten: The Space that Remains
2 Assaying: On the Anxiety of Positionality 3 Death by a Thousand Viewings 4 How to Have a Good Death, or, The Dead Grandma Essay 5 The Department of Transitional Assistance: Burial Unit 6 Field Notes of a Tombstone Tourist 7 On Bodies & Embodiment 8 Sweet Feet 9 Deaths of Disparity 10 Rest in Place: Hospice for Unhoused Individuals
11 In Memoriam 12 Indexing the Life & Death Experience of Homelessness A Poem
1 Remembering the Forgotten: The Space that Remains
2 Assaying: On the Anxiety of Positionality 3 Death by a Thousand Viewings 4 How to Have a Good Death, or, The Dead Grandma Essay 5 The Department of Transitional Assistance: Burial Unit 6 Field Notes of a Tombstone Tourist 7 On Bodies & Embodiment 8 Sweet Feet 9 Deaths of Disparity 10 Rest in Place: Hospice for Unhoused Individuals
11 In Memoriam 12 Indexing the Life & Death Experience of Homelessness A Poem
Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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