Handbook of Death and Dying

VOLUME ONE: THE PRESENCE OF DEATH Preface: A Thanatological Odyssey Death in Legal Context Introduction PART I DEATH IN CULTURAL CONTEXT CONFRONTING DEATH The Universal Fear of Death and the Cultural Response - Calvin Conzelus Moore and John B. Williamson Historical Changes in the Meaning of Death in the Western Tradition - William R. Wood and John B. Williamson Dealing With Death: Western Philosophical Strategies - Michael R. Taylor Death Denial: Hiding and Camouflaging Death - Bert Hayslip, Jr. Death, Dying, and the Dead in Popular Culture - Keith F. Durkin The Death Awareness Movement: Description, History, and Analysis - Kenneth J. Doka KEEPING THE DEAD ALIVE The Spiritualist Movement: Bringing the Dead Back - Charles F. Emmons Reincarnation: The Technology of Death - Jane Dillon Hosts and Ghosts: The Dead as Visitors in Cross-Cultural Perspective - Clifton D. Bryant Ghosts: The Dead Among Us - Charles F. Emmons The Malevolent "Undead": Cross-Cultural Perspectives - Keith P. Jacobi TRANSCENDING DEATH: RELIGIOUS AFTER-DEATH BELIEFS Spirituality - John D. Morgan Religion and the Mediation of Death Fear - Michael R. Leming Christian Beliefs Concerning Death and Life After Death - Donald E. Gowan Near-Death Experiences as Secular Eschatology - Tillman Rodabough and Kyle Cole DEATH AND SOCIAL EXCHANGE Life Insurance as Social Exchange Mechanism - Dennis L. Peck Full Military Honors": Ceremonial Interment as Sacred Compact - Timothy W. Wolfe and Clifton D. Bryant Symbolic Immortality and Social Theory: The Relevance of an Underutilized Concept - Lee Garth Vigilant and John B. Williamson PART II DEATH IN SOCIAL CONTEXT: VARIANTS IN MORALITY AND MEANING THE SOCIAL MODES OF DEATH: THE IMPORT OF CONTEXT AND CIRCUMSTANCES Historical and Epidemiological Trends in Mortality in the United States - Vicki L. Lamb Global Mortality Rates: Variations and Their Consequences for the Experience of Dying - Clive Seale To Die, by Mistake: Accidental Deaths - Lee Garth Vigilant and John B. Williamson Megadeaths: Individual Reactions and Social Responses to Massive Loss of Life - Jerome Rosenberg and Dennis L. Peck On the Role and Meaning of Death in Terrorism - Lee Garth Vigilant and John B. Williamson Death Attributed to Medical Error - Jerry T. McKnight and Pat Norton Homicidal Death - Steven A. Egger and Kim Egger PRE-PERSONALITY DEATHS Pre-Personality Pregnancy Losses: Miscarriages, Stillbirths, and Abortions - Jack P. Carter Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - Charles A. Corr and Donna M. Corr DEATH AS SOCIAL ENTITY: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DEATH The Evolution of the Legal Definition of Death - Tillman Rodabough Death Education - Charles A. Corr and Donna M. Corr DEATH AS INTERMISSION: THE CONTINUATION OF IDENTITY The Postself in Social Context - Jack Kamerman PART III DEATH AND SOCIAL CONTROVERSY SUICIDE Historical Suicide - Alan H. Marks Suicide and Suicide Trends in the United States, 1900-1999 - Dennis L. Peck Suicide Survivors: The Aftermath of Suicide and Suicidal Behavior - John L. McIntosh Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Suicide - David Lester CAPITAL PUNISHMENT A History of Execution Methods in the United States - Trina N. Seitz Capital Punishment in the United States - Stephanie Picolo Manzi Military Executions - J. Robert Lilly ABORTION The Abortion Issue in the United States - Michael C. Kearl THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC Dying of AIDS and Social Stigmatization - Robin D. Moremen EUTHANASIA Medical Euthanasia - Gail C. Walker ABORTION The Abortion Issue in the United States - Michael C. Kearl Physician-Assisted Death - Monika Ardelt PART IV PASSING AWAY: DYING AS SOCIAL PROCESS DEATH AS SOCIAL PROCESS: THE APPROACH OF DEATH Death Awareness and Adjustment Across the Life Span - Bert Hayslip, Jr., and Robert O. Hansson Dying as Deviance: An Update on the Relationship Between Terminal Patients and Medical Settings - Charles Edgley DEATH AS SOCIAL PROCESS: DYING The Dying Process - Graves E. Enck On Coming to Terms With Death and Dying: Neglected Dimensions of Identity Work - Kent L. Sandstrom THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF DEATH THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC Dying of AIDS and Social Stigmatization - Robin D. Moremen EUTHANASIA Medical Euthanasia - Gail C. Walker Death in Two Settings: The Acute Care Facility and Hospice - Sarah Brabant The History of the Hospice Approach - Michael R. Leming Dying in a Total Institution: The Case of Death in Prison - Francis D. Glamser and Donald A. Cabana Formal and Informal Caregiving at the End of Life - Pamela J. Kovacs and David P. Fauri VOLUME TWO: THE RESPONSE TO DEATH Before the Funeral The Death Notification Process - Alan E. Stewart and Janice Harris Lord The Autopsy - James Claude Upshaw Downs A Social History of Embalming - Melissa Johnson Williams The Organizational Resonse to Death Fallen Soldiers - Morten G. Ender, Paul T. Bartone, Thomas A. Kolditz Death-Related Works Systems Outside the Funeral Home - Watson Rogers II, Clifton D. Bryant Funeralization in the United States The American Family and the Processing of Death Prior to the 20th Century - Paul David Nygard and Catherine H. Reilly The Evolution of the Funeral Home and the Occupation of Funeral Driector - Jerome J. Salomone The American Funeral - Bert Hayslip, Jr., Kenneth W. Sewell, Russell B. Riddle Black Funeralization and Culturally Grounded Services - James L. Moore III and Clifton D. Bryant On the Economics of Death in the United States - Dwayne A. Banks Funerlization in Cross-Cultural Perspective The Funeral and the Funeral Industry in the United Kingdom - Brian Parsons Practices Surrounding the Dead in French-Speaking Belgium - Florence Vandendorpe Practices Surrounding the Dead in French-Speaking Belgium - Florence Vandendorpe The Native American Way of Death - Gerry R. Cox The Hindu Way of Death - Anantanand Rambachan The Muslim Way of Death - Dawood H. Sultan The Japanese Way of Death - Hikaru Suzuki The Taoist (Chinese) Way of Death - Linda Sun Crowder The Jewish Way of Death - Ruben Schindler Postfuneralization Activities Obituaries - Joyce E. Williams Gracing God's Acres: Some Notes on a Typology of Cemetery Visitation in Western Cultures - Joseph E. Boyle Impromptu Memorials to the Dead - Jon K. Reid Death and Community Responses: Comfort Community and Culture - Willam J. Hauser and AnneMarie Scarisbrick-Hauser Monuments in Motion: Gravemarkers, Cemeteries, and Memorials as Material Form and Context - Ann M. Palkovich and Ann Korologos Bazaronne PART VI Body Disposition Disposing of the Dead: Elysium as Real Estate The History of the American Cemetery and Some Reflections on teh Meaning of Death - Vicky M. MacLean and Joyce E. Willams Pet Burial in the United States - David D. Witt Disposing of the Dead: Options and Alternatives Cremation - Douglas J. Davies Body Recycling - Kelly A. Joyce and John B. Williamson The Iceman Cometh: The Cryonics Movements and Frozen Immortality - Clifton D. Bryant and Willam E. Snizek Disposing of the Dead: Minor Modes - DeAnn K. Gauthier, Nancy K. Chaudior, and Rhonda D. Evans Disposing of the Dead: Other Times, Other Places The Social History of the European Cemetery - Harold Mytum Body Disposition in Cross-Cultural Context: Prehistoric and Modern Non-Western Societies - Keith P. Jacobi Mummification and Mummies in Ancient Egypt - Peter Lacovara adn John Baines PART VII:THANATOLOGICAL AFTERMATH Grief and Bereavement The Evolution of Mourning and the Bereavement Role in the United States: Middle- and Upper-Class Americans - David E. Balk Social Dimensions of Grief - Maria I. Vera The Experience of Grief and Bereavement - Robert A. Neimeyer and Lois A. Gamino Bereavement in Cross-Cultural Perspective - Paul C. Rosenblatt The Social Impact of Survivorhood Widowhood and Its Social Implications - Felix M. Berardo Children and the Death of a Parent - Eric Lichten Parents and the Death of a Child - Sangeeta Singg PART VIII: THE LEGALITIES OF DEATH Death in Legal Contex Living Wills and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care - Carolyn Pevey The Death Certificate: Civil Registration, Medical Certification, and Social Issues - Dennis L. Peck Coroner and Medical Examiner - James Claude Upshaw Downs Death, Succession, and the Testamentory Inheritance The Disposition of Property: Transfers Between the Dead and the Living - Robert K. Miller, Jr., Jeffrey P. Rosenfeld, and Stephen J. McNamee The Last Will and Testament: A Neglected Document in Sociological Research - Clifton D. Bryant and Willaim E. Snizek The Legal Regulation of Death-Related Activities The Regulation of Mortuary Science Education - Todd W. Van Beck Cemetery Regulation in the United States - Robert M. Fells Death and Legal Blame Death and Legal Blame: Wrongful Death - Thomas J. Vesper Negligent Death and Manslaughter - Frances P. Bernat The Dead as Legal Entity "Thanatological Crime": Some Conceptual Notes on Offenses Against the Dead as a Neglected Form of Deviant Behavior - Clifton D. Bryant PART IX: THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION AND THE RESPONSE TO DEATH Art Death in Art - Charles E. Walton Literature Cultural Concern with Death in Literature - Diana Royer Music "Arise, Ye More Than Dead!" Culture, Music, and Death - Robert Kastenbaum Organic Sculpture Dead Zoo Chic: Some Conceptual Notes on Taxidermy in American Social Life - Clifton D. Bryant and Donald J. Shoemaker PART X: THE FUTURE OF DEATH Death in the Future: Prospects and Prognosis - Clifton D. Bryant, Charles Edgley, Michael R. Leming, Dennis L. Peck, and Kent L. Sandstrom