Mortality, Dying and Death
edited by T Chandler Haliburton and Caroline Edwards

ISBN: 978-1-914710-52-3

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CONTENT

Introduction

PART I                  END OF LIFE CARE
Hospital Experience
When End of Life Becomes an Emergency: Dealing with Death and Dying in the Emergency Department
Cara Bailey 

Is Religion Harmful to Patients at the End-of-Life? The Impact of Religion on End-of-Life Decision-Making
Kate Coleman-Brueckheimer  

The Elderly
The Return of the Grotesque Aged Female Body in Gunter von Hagens’ Autopsy: Life and Death (Channel 4)
Joanne Garde-Hansen  

“I don’t want to be a burden to anybody”: Older People’s Preferences for Care at the End of Life 
Eileen Sutton and Joanna Coast  

 

PART II                ATTITUDES AND CONCEPTS
Conceptions of Death in Biography and Philosophy
The Trauma of Death and the Silence of the Private Diary                       
Nikos Falagkas and Georgia Kalogeropoulou 

Death and Ambition in Freud’s The Interpretation of
Dreams                                                                                                       
Liran Razinsky    

To Join the Army as a Volunteer During a War: Wittgenstein and the Conception of Death   
Rossella Pisconti    

Changing Attitudes Towards Death
“Coffin Nails and Column Inches”: An Overview of the News-worthiness of Death in British and Irish Journalism Since the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Mark Wehrly   

Mr. Moss's Skull: Changing Attitudes Toward Accidental Exhumation in Annapolis, Maryland, 1855-2006 
Michael P. Parker   

 

PART III              SUFFERING AND BEREAVMENT
Rituals and Bereavement

Maniat Laments as “Traditional” Narratives: From the Performed to the Monumentalised
Korina Giaxoglou 

The Parasocial Paradox: How Personalized Funerals Extend Our Relationships Beyond Death  
Terri Toles Patkin 

The Use of Physical Objects in Mourning by Midlife Daughters 
Laura Lewis and Judith Belle Brown   

Suffering, Suicide, Euthanasia
The Ethics of Physician Assisted Suicide:  A New Approach
Lloyd Steffen              

When People Choose to Die: Does it Matter What We Call It?
Gavin Fairbairn   

Intentional Death: Stoicism and the Debate on Suicide
Petra Benske

The Death of God and Suicide (Why, Why Not) in Modernist Literature
T. Chandler Haliburton  

 

PART IV               THE ARTS
The Art of Dying
The Temples at Burning Man
Lori van Meter  

The Art of Dying
Helen Ennis 

Representations of the Infamous or Anonymous Dead: Gerhard Richter’s Photopaintings and Jeffrey Silverthorne’s Photographs
Randall van Schepen  

Literature and Death
Death and Repetition: A Literary Approach
Francisc Szekely                                                                            

“Half in Love with Easeful Death”: Death in The Loved One and Love Among the Ruins
Elisa Morera de la Vall      

Familiarising Death in Fiction: Utopia, Time and Transcendence in Jim Crace’s Being Dead and Graham  Swift’s Last Orders
Caroline Edwards      

“Life Without A Trace”: Transforming Pain Into A Poem
Julieta C. Mallari   

Memorial and Mourning: Eli Mandel and the Yizkor Books
Christian Riegel     

Cinema and Death
“Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death” - Ingmar Bergman
Ananya Ghoshal

“I am Dead”: Notes on Cinema's Refutation of Time
Jan Holmberg  

A Chance to Live Forever?: Cloning and Personal Survival in The 6th Day
Rudolph Glitz     

Notes on Contributors