How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality
A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death From blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left by those considering suicide, technology has become a medium for the dead and the dying to cope with the anxiety of death. Services like artificial intelligence chatbots, mind-uploading, and postmortem blog posts ......
How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality
A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death From blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left by those considering suicide, technology has become a medium for the dead and the dying to cope with the anxiety of death. Services like artificial intelligence chatbots, mind-uploading, and postmortem blog posts ......
Offers an overview of the funeral home business. This title provides information needed by consumers, legal advisors, trust officers, and even clergy - all those who must confront the practical questions that surround one of life's most trying and emotion-filled experiences.
An Investigation of Death and Dying In Modern America
Our healthcare system is broken-particularly for the elderly and terminally ill. Modern healthcare is obsessed with trying to extend life instead of caring holistically for the patient. The fear of death compounds these problems. The Journeys End offers unique perspectives and solutions to these issues.
A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era
This volume bridges the gap between forensic and cultural anthropology in how both disciplines describe and theorize the dead, highlighting the potential for interdisciplinary scholarship. As applied disciplines dealing with some of the most marginalized people in our society, forensic anthropologists have the potential to shed light on important ......
Through a series of case studies, the author explores the paradoxical relationship between creativity and self-destruction. Creativity and suicide, he argues, are both avenues to the resolution of personal catastrophes, with the door to suicide becoming unlocked when creativity's restitutive powers fail.
Drawing on literature, philosophy, and medicine, this title offers insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception of death. It examines how we view death and the care of the critically ill or dying, and suggests ways of understanding death that can lead to a peaceful acceptance.
Argues that a range of behaviors such as murder-suicide, terrorism, and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than by homicidal ones Mass shooters often display behaviors that strongly mirror the warning signs for suicide: lives led in isolation, intense personal suffering, disaffection, and struggle. Letters ......
Argues that a range of behaviors such as murder-suicide, terrorism, and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than by homicidal ones Mass shooters often display behaviors that strongly mirror the warning signs for suicide: lives led in isolation, intense personal suffering, disaffection, and struggle. Letters ......
