An edition of A commonsense book of death
(2008)
A commonsense book of death
reflections at ninety of a lifelong thanatologist
[New ed.].
by Edwin S. Shneidman
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Commonsense Book of Death: Reflections at Ninety of a Lifelong Thanatologist
2008, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated
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A commonsense book of death: reflections at ninety of a lifelong thanatologist
2008, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Rowman & Littlefield
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Lanham, Md
Table of Contents
Act one 1973 : extended excerpts from Deaths of man
Part I: The dying person-and after
Introduction
Death work and stages of dying
An appropriate death
Postvention and the survivor-victim
The postself
Part II: Views of death
Personal and impersonal aspects of death
Ambivalence and subintention
Part III: Medico-legal aspects of death
Death and the state
The death certificate
The psychological autopsy
Part IV: Dimensions of death
Megadeath : children of the nuclear family
Afterword
Intermission 2005 : a retrospective review of Deaths of man
Brewster Smith
Act two 2008 : revised thoughts of Deaths of man, thirty-five years later
One fundamental attribute of death : on and off
Two basic orientations toward death : mine and yours
Three stances toward death : intentioned, subintentioned, unintentioned
Four traditional categories of death : natural, accident, suicide, homicide
Clarifying equivocal deaths
A psychological autopsy in a military setting
An appropriate death : criteria for a good-enough death
Commonalities of suicide : a cubic model
The coarsening of death : postvention
The postself : survival after death.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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