The presence of the dead in our lives / / edited by Nate Hinerman and Julia Apollonia Glahn.

• Superior document: At the interface/Probing the bounderies ; v. 82
• TeilnehmendeR: Hinerman, Nate.; Glahn, Julia.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi B.V.,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 82.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Pragmatic Immortality and the Insignificance of My Own Death /; On the Notion of Presence and its Importance for a Concept of Dignity of the Dead /; The Deathless Self: Death and Immortality in the Discourse of Vedanta /; Sites that Cope, Cure and Commemorate: Weblogs of Terminally Ill /; Survivor’s Guilt in Caretakers of Cancer /; The Haunt/Demons and the Complex of Noon /; Planning a Funeral: The Encounter between Bereaved and Officiant /; Living with the Dead: Cremating and Reburying the Dead in a Megalopolis /; Heroic Death and Selective Memory: The US’s WWII Memorial and the USSR’s Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad /; Preserving the Dead in the Lives of the Living /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1283868768; 9401208522
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Nate Hinerman and Julia Apollonia Glahn.

This volume offers a selection of articles from authors representing a wide array of disciplines, all of whom explore the following central theme: how can the presence of the dead take life in the hearts of the living? Although individuals die, they can indeed remain “present.” But how? Authors in this volume explicate practical mourning strategies to help survivors cope with the tremendous sadness and emptiness experienced when we lose someone we love.