Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction Winner of the Eastern Communication Association's Everett Lee Hunt Award A behind-the-scenes account of how death is presented in the media Death is considered one of the most newsworthy events, but words do not ......
Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction Winner of the Eastern Communication Association's Everett Lee Hunt Award A behind-the-scenes account of how death is presented in the media Death is considered one of the most newsworthy events, but words do ......
Contemporary Perspectives, Institutions, and Practices
Written by luminaries who have shaped the field, this capstone book distils the collective wisdom of foremost scholars and practitioners, who together have nearly a millennium of experience in the death and dying movement. The book bears witness to the discipline's evolution and presents the insights of its pioneers, eyewitnesses, and major ......
How Parents Cope with the Death of a Child to Suicide or Drugs
This book fills a critical gap in our scientific understanding of the grief response of parents who have lost a child to traumatic death and the psychotherapeutic strategies that best facilitate healing. It is based on the results of the largest study ever conducted of parents surviving a child's traumatic death or suicide. The book was conceived ......
Through an analysis of suicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky's writings, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how his implicit awareness of self-homicide pre-figured theories of prominent suicidologists, shaped both his philosophy and craft as a writer, and forged a ligature between artistry and the pluripresent impulse to self-annihilate.
Presents a variety of end-of life experiences and each case is analyzed from many disciplinary perspectives. The analyses illustrate how specific end-of-life narratives can be viewed from different dimensions. This book helps students, researchers and practitioners see the meanings that end-of-life experiences have at the level of the family.
Individuals facing death may not know how to express the range of emotions, questions, and discoveries they experience. This book can help open the door to meaningful conversation, reminiscence, and reflection at the end of life.
A new book exploring the mystery of dying and the power of our own life stories to heal and bring peace at this time of great transition and grief. Drawing heavily on real people’s stories, Facing Death explores the emotional and spiritual journey individuals traverse in the weeks and months leading up to dying.
Exploring a new approach to interfaith/interreligious communication, the contributors to this collection seek to interact from the perspective of their own tradition or academic discipline with Ernest Becker's theory on the relationship between religion, culture and the human awareness of death and mortality. While much interfaith/interreligious ......
