Commonsense Book of Death Reflections at Ninety of a Lifelong Thanatologist

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ISBN: 9780742563315

ISBN-10: 0742563316

ISBN-13: 9780742563315

Edition: 2008

Authors: Edwin Shneidman

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Book details

List price: $92.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/3/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface



Excerpts from 1973 Deaths of Man


Introduction



Death Work and Stages of Dying



An Appropriate Death



Postvention and the Survivor-Victim



The Postself



Personal and Impersonal Aspects of Death



Ambivalence and Subintention



Death and the State



The Death Certificate



The Psychological Autopsy



Megadeath: Children of the Nuclear Family


Afterword


Intermission: A Retrospective Review of Deaths of Man


Introduction


A Classic of Thanatology




Revised Thoughts of Deaths of Man, Thirty-five Years Later


Introduction



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


Matinee


Introduction


"Wednesdays with Ed": A Report by the Author's Psychotherapist



Mourning After


References


Acknowledgments


Monody


Name Index


Subject Index


About the Author