Making Sense of Death, Dying and Bereavement

An interesting book which looks at understandings made in relation to death.

• PART ONE: VISUAL IMAGES OF DEATH, DYING AND DISPOSALIntroduction - Sarah Earle and Carol KomaromyAfghanistan WomanSunrisePurple PlanetMaskA Woman and a Boy Visiting a Man in HospitalA Deathbed SceneMilaLizaA Death CertificateThe Death of ChattertonDead Face of a GirlDead Face of a ManThe Dissection of a Beautiful Young WomanHuman Bones in Paris CatacombsMass Grave, BelsenAbandoned GraveRoadside Memorial, Avenida España, Cadiz, SpainRoadside Memorial, Groveway, Milton Keynes, UK,Roadside Memorials and the Public HealthMemorial Quilt, Scotland, PART TWO: DEATH AND DYING IN POETRY, FICTION AND THE MEDIAIntroduction - Sarah Earle and Carol KomaromyThe Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch AlbomVicky Angel - Jacqueline WilsonDo Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - Dylan ThomasOde to a Nightingale - John KeatsFuneral Blues - Wystan Hugh AudenDiary Notes - Jenny HockeyAnthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred OwenAftermath - Siegfried SassoonPlacing the Dead - Jenny HockeyCatch - Joseph HellerFor Phyllis - Yasmin GunuratnamBlind Date - Yasmin GunuratnamDead Sexy: Why Death Is the New Sex - Jacque Lynn FoltynObituary - Dame Cicely Saunders - The TimesPART THREE: DEATH, DYING AND BEREAVEMENT ON THE WORLD WIDE WEBIntroduction - Sarah Earle and Carol KomaromyHere Today and Cyberspace Tomorrow: Memorials and Bereavement Support on the Web - Pamela RobertsWinston′s Wish: For Young People Bereavement UK: The Garden of TranquillityAndrea Rouen′s FarewellCass BrownCancergigglesAnna Davidsson BremborgDead Bodies on the InternetWhen Kids Seek Help Online: Internet Chat Rooms and Suicide - Katja Becker and Martin H. SchmidtResources on the World Wide Web - Sarah EarlePART FOUR: CARING FOR PEOPLE AT THE END OF LIFEIntroduction - Sarah Earle and Carol KomaromyAlzheimer′s: My Mother′s Death - Lydia ChantRespect for Autonomy: Easier Said Than Done - Mary TwomeyPrecious Lives - Margaret ForsterIt′s Not Like Family Going, Is It? - Elizabeth Young, Clive Seale and Michael BuryA Fridge too Far? - Alun MorganA Porter′s Story - AnonymousCaregiver Suffering Is a Dimension of End-of-Life Care - Cynda Hylton-RushtonAlways Fight - Atul GawandeThe Social Worker and Chaplain during and after a Death - Nancy A Hodgson, Sheila Segal, Maria Weidinger, and Mary Beth LindeThe Intimacy of End-of-Life Care - Debbie KomaromyIntimacy and Relationships: The View from a Hospice - Philip BallDeath in the Early Evening - Tom HellerPART FIVE: WHEN SOMEONE DIESIntroduction, Sarah Earle and Carol KomaromyBeing Orphaned in Early Adulthood - Jacqueline H WattsMemories of Death - Linda Camborne-PaynterA Grief Observed - C S LewisSuicide - Kier HardieSuicide Is Painless? - Kythé BeaumontThe Loss of Mango - Ingrid NixThe Death of a Socialite - Ricardo Estee-WaleBlack Humour and the Death of a Child - Ann MartinExperiences of Miscarriage - Gayle LetherbyA Family′s Experience of Autopsy - Josie HughesThe First Death: A Student′s Experience - Joyce CavayeDeath in Iceland, Hidden and Revealed - Árnar ArnasonMy Floral Tribute - Maxine BirchSilenced Endings: Death, Dying and Learning Disabilities - Stuart ToddPART SIX: REFLECTING ON TRAUMATIC DEATH, MASS DEATH AND DISASTERIntroduction - Sarah Earle and Carol KomaromyWhen The Tsunami Hit Sri Lanka - Claire WijayatilakeTraumatic Bereavement and the Asian Tsunami: Perspectives from Tamil Nadu, India - Prathap TharyanRuth: Death by Murder - Lesley MorelandReflections of Death: Continuing Memories - Carol KomaromyWhen Disaster Strikes: Reflections on Personal Experience of Disaster - Disaster ActionPersonal and Medical Memories from Hillsborough - Tom HellerThe Personal and Professional Reflections of a Forensic Ecologist - Patricia WiltshireReturning Property after Death and Disaster - Lucy PayneCollective Loss and Community Resilience AFTER September - Anne EyrePART SEVEN: MAKING SENSE OF THE AFTER-LIFE AND LIFE AFTER DEATHIntroductionHospital Ghosts and Hauntings - Sarah Earle and Carol KomaromyParanormal DatabaseFamily Ghosts - Suzanne PerryDeathbed Apparitions - Simon J SherwoodTraveller Gypsies - Judith OkelyIf the Spirit Moves You - Justine PicardieIs Anybody There? - Jo DawsonExperience of the Loss of a Husband/Father - Dorothy Thornton and Gayle LetherbySparkling Epitaphs: From Jewels to Web Portraits, We′ve Moved on from the Tombstone - Roger Dobson