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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Pragmatic Immortality and the Insignificance of My Own Death / Peter Caws -- On the Notion of Presence and its Importance for a Concept of Dignity of the Dead / Julia Apollonia Glahn -- The Deathless Self: Death and Immortality in the Discourse of Vedanta / Dhruv RajNagar -- Sites that Cope, Cure and Commemorate: Weblogs of Terminally Ill / Marga Altena and Nothando Ngwenya -- Survivor’s Guilt in Caretakers of Cancer / Shulamith Kreitler , Frida Barak , Yasmin Alkalay and Nava Siegelman-Danieli -- The Haunt/Demons and the Complex of Noon / Tolulope Onabolu -- Planning a Funeral: The Encounter between Bereaved and Officiant / Glenys Caswell -- Living with the Dead: Cremating and Reburying the Dead in a Megalopolis / Marcel Reyes-Cortez -- Heroic Death and Selective Memory: The US’s WWII Memorial and the USSR’s Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad / Susan M. Behuniak -- Preserving the Dead in the Lives of the Living / Nate Hinerman.