560 Pages
by
Routledge
560 Pages
by
Routledge
560 Pages
by
Routledge
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In recent years there has been a massive upsurge in academic, professional and lay interest in mortality. This is reflected in academic and professional literature, in the popular media and in the proliferation of professional roles and training courses associated with aspects of death and dying. Until now the majority of reference material on death and dying has been designed for particular... Read more
adolescence; afterlife; ageing; All Saints Day; All Souls' Day; angels; bereavement; Black Death; brain death; Buddhism; burial rites; cancer; care of the dying child; Catholicism; cot death; cremation; death instinct; Death Row; depression; disasters; drugs; Egypt, ancient; embalming; euthanasia; epitaphs; evil; fate and fatalism; fear; film; funerals; gas chambers; ghosts; good death; graves; Greece, ancient; healing; Heaven; Hell; Hinduism; immortality; Islam; Journal of Death Studies; Judaism; kamikaze; laying out; life support; longevity; medicine; meditation; memorial; mourning; near-death experiences; nursing homes; obituaries; old age; organ donation; out-of-body experience; pathology; pilgrimage; post-mortem rituals; psychology; reincarnation; Requiem Mass; resurrection; resuscitation; spiritual healing; suicide; superstitions; Tibetan Book of the Dead; transplants; Tutenkhamen; vampires; wakes; war memorials; widowhood;
Biography
Glennys Howarth, Oliver Leaman
'Rich and fascinating articles on all aspects of death and dying ... This work will enrich all academic and public library collections.' - Library Journal
'The book is a fine achievement, both interdisciplinary and multicultural in its scope. The entries are concise, clear and beautifully presented. There are also splendid illustrations. Cross-referencing is expert. It is not just a work of reference but also one to browse.' - TLS, August 2002
