1st Edition

Awareness of Mortality

Edited By Jeffrey Kauffman Copyright 1995
    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    228 Pages
    by Routledge

    All of us who work in the field of death and dying are, beyond our projects and our practices, working on our awareness of our own mortality. This richly stimulating collection of original articles challenges the reader to develop a disciplined and focused awareness of his/her own mortality, and to grapple with the implications. "Awareness of Mortality" contributes to the basic and passionate intellectual quest for meaning in thanatology. It provokes the reader with a wide range of ideas and thinking styles to deepen the questioning process within his/her own self. "Awareness of Mortality" explores issues in philosophy, ethics, developmental psychology, psychoanalytic psychology, idealistic humanism, sociology, spiritual traditions, and other humanities that thanatology overlaps. "Awareness of Mortality" is an introduction to a broad-based philosophical thanatology.

    Introduction

    PART I: POSING QUESTIONS
    What Should We Expect From Philosophy? Jeanne Quint Benoliel Dying and Death Late in the Twentieth Century David J. Roy

    PART II: PERSPECTIVES IN PHILOSOPHICAL THANATOLOGY
    Immortality John D. Morgan The Idea of "The Glorious Dead": The Conversion of a Uniquely Personal Experience Bill Warren

    Suffering and Death: External Questions in a New Context Kjell Kallenberg

    Meaning and the Awareness of Death Galen K. Pletcher

    Blinkings: A Thanatocentric Theory of Consciousness Jeffrey Kauffman

    Personal Identity and Death Concern—Philosophical and Developmental Perspectives Adrian Tomer

    PART III: HUMANISTIC REFLECTIONS ON MORTALITY AWARENESS
    The Awareness of Mortality in Midlife: Implications for Later Life Kenneth J. Doka Intimations of Mortality from Recollections of Early Childhood: Death Awareness, Knowledge, and the Unconscious Victor L. Schermer

    Children, Death, and Fairy Tales Elizabeth P. Lamers

    Saying Good-Bye to Tomorrow Inge Corless

    Horrendous Death: Linking Thanatology and Public Health Dan Leviton

    Death and Beyond: A Hindu's Perspective Aruna Mathur

    Contributors

    Index

    Biography

    Jeremy Kauffman