1st Edition

Death and Bereavement Around the World Reflective Essays: Volume 5

    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    This final volume of ""Death and Bereavement Around the World"" reflects on some major themes: death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches, cultural variations, suicide, and other issues. The first few chapters describe progress in end-of-life care, including some new tools to evaluate hospice care (chapter 1); what children know, when they know it, and how parents can respond to questions, with some guidelines for support by schools (chapter 2); the importance of ritual (chapter 3); and, gender differences in death customs around the world (chapter 4).The transcript of a 1997 interview of John (Jack) Morgan by Pittu Laungani is presented as chapter 5. The following chapters discuss death systems and suicide (chapter 6); HIV/AIDS, including the role of cultural and economic factors in the spread of the disease (chapter 7); and grief and bereavement in the developing world, taking the AIDS pandemic as a specific challenge (chapter 8). Chapter 9 covers issues related to dying and death in Romania. In chapter 10 the focus is on the various functions and uses of names in a cross-cultural context. Roadside memorials as a pivotal healing strategy are the topic of chapter 11. Chapters 12 and 13 focus on spiritual experience with loss.The final chapter presents some conclusions, and in the Epilogue, Mary Ann Morgan honors the life, career, dying, death, and achievements of John (Jack) Morgan. The 'Final Word' includes the words of Pittu Laungani, from a book published just weeks before his death in February 2007.This work is for anyone interested in or working in death and bereavement issues, particularly academics, educators, librarians, chaplains, clergy, funeral service directors, hospice care providers and volunteers, palliative care providers, nurses, immigration officers, psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists, and counselors, especially bereavement counselors.

    PREFACE Stephen Palmer

     GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO SERIES John D Morgan, Pittu Laungani and Stephen Palmer

     TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR JACK MORGAN Pittu Laungani

     TRIBUTE TO PITTU: Reflections on the Last Months of His Life and Achievements Ann Laungani

    INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME
            PART 1 Pittu Laungani

            PART 2 Stephen Palmer

     CHAPTER 1
     End of Life Care Stephen Connor

     CHAPTER 2
     Children and Death Around the World Robert Stevenson

     CHAPTER 3
     Ritual: Making Special: The Right of Every Griever  Harold Ivan Smith

     CHAPTER 4
     Gender Differences in Death Customs Around the World Tom Golden

     CHAPTER 5
     Pittu Laungani in Conversation with John D. Morgan Pittu Laungani and John D. Morgan

     CHAPTER 6
     Death Systems and Suicide Around the World Antoon Leenaars

     CHAPTER 7
     AIDS = Death Inge B. Corless

     CHAPTER 8
     Grief and Bereavement in the Developing World Val Maasdorp and Rona Martin

     CHAPTER 9
     Death and Bereavement in Romania Marius Rotar

     CHAPTER 10
     Names and their Uses Sam Silverman

     CHAPTER 11
     Roadside Memorials: Beyond Individual Grieving Iara Costa and Roy Moodley

     CHAPTER 12
     Spiritual Experiences with Loss: Encouragement or Disaster? Rev. Richard Gilbert

     CHAPTER 13
     Spirituality, Dying, Death, and Bereavement: Time for a Radically Expanded Definition of Spirituality Kate Arthur

     CHAPTER 14
     Conclusion Stephen Palmer

     EPILOGUE
     Reflection on the Life of John Daniel Morgan: A Journey to Wholeness Mary Ann Morgan

     FINAL WORD Pittu Laungani

    Meet the Contributors

     Index

    Biography

    John Morgan (Author) ,  Stephen Palmer (Director, Centre for Coaching, UK) (Author) ,  Pittu Laungani (was Reader in Psychology at South Bank University) (Author) ,  Dale Lund (Author)