Making Sense of Death

Gerry R Cox (Author) , Robert A Bendiksen (Author) , Robert G Stevenson (Author)

• Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Herman H. van der Kloot Meijburg and Robert A. Bendiksen SECTION I Facing the Death of a Loved One CHAPTER 1 The Role of Spiritual Experience in Adapting to Bereavement Louis A. Gamino, Larry W. Easterling, and Kenneth W. Sewell CHAPTER 2 The Death of a Spouse: A Spiritual and Psychological Crisis Susan J. Zonnebelt-Smeenge and Robert C. DeVries CHAPTER 3 For Those Who Stand and Wait Kent Koppelman SECTION II Meaning-Making in the Face of Death CHAPTER 4 A Taste of Heaven Here on Earth: For the Dying and for the Accompanier Rabbi Daniel A. Roberts CHAPTER 5 Death, Humor, and Spirituality: Strange Bedfellows? Ruth Dean CHAPTER 6 Death and the Postmodern Self: Individualism, Religion, and the Transformation of the Modern Self Raymond L. M. Lee CHAPTER 7 The Healing Touch of Awareness: A Buddhist Perspective on Death, Dying, and Pastoral Care Arthur O. Ledoux SECTION III Extraordinary Death and Loss CHAPTER 8 Cyber Cemeteries and Virtual Memorials: Virtual Living Monuments as On-line Outlets for Real Life Mourning and a Celebration of Life Hermann Gruenwald and Le Gruenwald CHAPTER 9 Violence is the Dark Side of Spirituality John D. Morgan CHAPTER 10 Native American Grief and Loss: Conceptualizations of Disenfranchised Grief and Historical Trauma at Individual and Community Levels Steven R. Byers, Theresa T. Erdkamp, and Lisa Byers CHAPTER 11 In the Aftermath of Columbine: Tragedy as Opportunity for Transformation Kevin Ann Oltjenbruns, Steven R. Byers, and Suzanne Tochterman SECTION IV Professional Caregivers and Spirituality CHAPTER 12 When a Patient Dies: Meeting Spiritual Needs of the Bereaved in a Health Care Setting Fran Rybarik and Diane Midland CHAPTER 13 An Exploratory Study of the Spirituality of Clergy as Compared with Health Care Professionals David W. Adams and Rick Csiernik CHAPTER 14 Living, Dying, and Grieving in the Margins Rev. Richard B. Gilbert SECTION V Conclusion CHAPTER 15 Spirituality in Nursing: Being in a Liminal Space Cheryl Laskowski CHAPTER 16 Spirituality and Loss Gerry R. Cox Contributors Index