Remember Me (eBook, PDF)

Constructing Immortality - Beliefs on Immortality, Life, and Death
Redaktion: Mitchell, Margaret

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Produktbeschreibung

Remember Me brings together contributors from around the world with unique insight on the ways in which one's relationship with loved ones continues, endures, and perhaps even grows after death.

Much of the available literature speaks of healthy bereavement as letting go of the deceased and moving forward with life. This new text challenges that notion, discussing the meaning attributed to death and to the anticipation of death.

The living, as presented in these innovative chapters, construct social entities of those who have died, via the carrying out of wishes in the Will; pursuing legal claims; or simply attributing certain desires, emotions, or choices to the deceased reconstitutes them as active, even vital, voices even after biological death. Just as life itself, the end of life and death is an interdisciplinary matter. A clear psychological theme and focus ties together these perspectives under three conceptual areas: the anticipation of death; the social life of the deceased and the legal embodiment of the deceased.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136920868
• Artikelnr.: 47896343

Autorenporträt

Margaret Mitchell, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia and Director of the Sellenger Centre for Research in Law, Justice and Policing. She first became interested in the social context of death while working with Strathclyde Police in Glasgow, Scotland on the aftermath of the Lockerbie Disaster in 1988 and studying its impact on emergency workers and the community.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. Mitchell
Constructing Immortality: The Role of the Dead in Everyday Life. Howarth
The Rebirth of Death: Continuing Relationships with the Dead. Hockey
Kellaher
Prendergast
Sustaining Kinship: Ritualization and the Disposal of Human Ashes in the United Kingdom. Bourke
"Rachel Comforted": Spiritualism and the Reconstruction of the Body After Death. Fowler
Collective Memory and Forgetting: Components for a Study of Obituaries. Hughes
Fever. Drake
The Will: Inheritance Distribution and Feuding Families. Allsop
Complaints About Health Care in the United Kingdom Following a Person's Death. Johnson
Knowing by Heart: Remembering Victims of Intrafamilial Homicide. Herbert
Psychosocial Death Following Traumatic Brain Injury. Sullivan
Should Suicide be Reported in the Media? A Research Note. Breen
O'Connor
Family Disputes
Dysfunction
and Division: Case Studies of Road Traffic Deaths. Lennon
Mitchell
Dark Tourism: The Role of Sites of Death in Tourism. Beloff
Immortality Work: Photographs as Memento Mori. Wyatt
Art as Afterlife: Posthumous Self-presentation by Eminent Painters. Kornell
The Eternal Cadaver: Anatomy and its Representation. Read
Representing Trauma: The Case for Troubling Images.