Dying, assisted death and mourning / / edited by Asa Kasher.

Dying and death are topics of deep humane concern for many people in a variety of circumstances and contexts. However, they are not discussed to any great extent or with sufficient focus in order to gain knowledge and understanding of their major features and aspects. The present volume is an attemp...

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Superior document:At the interface/probing the boundaries. Making sense of dying and death ; v. 58
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2009.
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 58.
Physical Description:1 online resource (183 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Hospice and the Intangible Wonders of Being / Mary Josephine Mahoney
  • ‘So That’s a Completely Different Story’: Competing Narratives in the Lives of Relatives Caring for Dying Patients / Jeremy Weinstein
  • Death and the Sense of Self / Chris J. Onof
  • Political Murder on the German Opera Stage Masagniello Furioso, Günther von Schwarzburg and Rienzi / Karl Traugott Goldbach
  • Nurse Involvement in the Care for Patients Requesting Euthanasia / Nele De Bal , Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé and Chris Gastmans
  • Are We Barking Up the Wrong Tree? Questioning the Appropriateness of Human Models for Understanding Bereavement as Applied to the Experience of Companion Animal Loss through Euthanasia / Susan Dawson and Bill Campbell
  • The Saying Hallo Metaphor as Alternative Approach to Death-Related Counselling / Werner Nell
  • Remembering the Dead: Roadside Memorials in Ireland / Una MacConville and Regina McQuillan
  • “Untitled” (Queer Mourning and the Art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres) / Emily Boone Hagenmaier
  • Contributors.