Narratives of Parental Death, Dying and Bereavement

Caroline Pearce is a Visiting Researcher at the Palliative and End of Life Care Group, University of Cambridge, UK.Carol Komaromy is a medical sociologist who has worked extensively in both NHS clinical practice and academia. She served as co-editor of the journal Mortality and was a founding member of the Association of Death and Society. Carol has retired from full-time work but is an honorary associate of The Open University, UK.

• 1. Introduction: Narrating Death (Caroline Pearce and Carol Komaromy).- 2. A Kind of Haunting (Carol Komaromy).- 3. A Death Recalled (Jenny Hockey).- 4. Continuing and Emerging Bonds: Working Through Grief as a Daughter and an Academic (Kathryn Almack).-  5. A Bittersweet Legacy (Gordon Riches).- 6. Two Traumatic Bereavements (Colin Murray Parkes).- 7. Death, Dislocation and Discovery over Five (or Should That Be Six or Even Seven?) Decades (Rosaline S. Barbour).- 8. Bereavement, Sacred-Secrecy, and Dreams (Douglas Davies).- 9. Conclusion: Recovering Ghosts (Caroline Pearce).