Death, Value and Meaning Series
Making Sense of Death: Spiritual,Pastoral, and Personal Aspects of Death,Dying and Bereavement
1st Edition
By Gerry Cox, Robert Bendiksen, Robert Stevenson
December 30, 2024
The editors of "Making Sense of Death: Spiritual, Pastoral, and Personal Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement" provide stimulating discussions as they ponder the meaning of life and death.This anthology explores the process of meaning-making in the face of death and the roles of religion and ...
Awareness of Mortality
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffrey Kauffman
September 30, 2021
All of us who work in the field of death and dying are, beyond our projects and our practices, working on our awareness of our own mortality. This richly stimulating collection of original articles challenges the reader to develop a disciplined and focused awareness of his/her own mortality, and to...
Prospects for Immortality: A Sensible Search for Life after Death
1st Edition
By J Robert Adams
March 31, 2021
"Prospects for Immortality: A Sensible Search for Life After Death" theorizes how matters concerning the birth of the universe, its ultimate fate, and the creation, evolution, and final destiny of life on earth co-exist with regenerated consciousness. Readers of this volume will be prompted to ...
Sorrow and Solace: The Social World of the Cemetery
1st Edition
By Philip Bachelor
September 30, 2020
Sorrow and Solace focuses on the importance of cemeteries in the lives of everyday mourners, and ways in which our bereaved give meaning to and draw value from their commemorative activities. The death of someone dear to us is among the most momentous life event that we experience. In many ...
Suicide by Cop: Committing Suicide by Provoking Police to Shoot You
1st Edition
By Mark Lindsay, David Lester, PhD.
April 25, 2019
This book examines what we know about the phenomenon of suicide by cop and places this behavior in a broader context. For example, some murder victims (perhaps as many as a quarter) provoke the murderer, to some extent, into killing them-so-called victim-precipitated homicide. In some cases, it has...
Complicated Grieving and Bereavement: Understanding and Treating People Experiencing Loss
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerry Cox, Robert Bendiksen, Robert Stevenson
January 30, 2019
Losses may provide a turning point where an individual faces personal and social choices. Still, one may derive significance through the experience of loss, while another may encounter bereavement with less consequence. "Complicated Grieving and Bereavement: Understanding and Treating People ...
Reflections on Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Manual for Clergy, Counsellors and Speakers
1st Edition
By William Smith
January 30, 2019
The methodology of "Reflections on Death, Dying and Bereavement" is mainly philosophical. It is intended to complement scriptural and theological studies. The volume has five main sections that are further divided by chapter. The first section contains foundational considerations. Since the belief ...
The Impact of Art and Culture on Caregiving: The Impact of Art and Culture on Caregiving
1st Edition
By John Morgan
January 17, 2019
"Meeting the Needs of Our Clients Creatively: The Impact of Art and Culture on Caregiving" is an important new work which integrates traditional understandings of care of the dying and bereaved with the use of arts and other forms of cultural creativity in therapy and funeralization. Twenty-one ...
Homicide Survivors: Misunderstood Grievers
1st Edition
By Judie Bucholz
January 03, 2019
"Homicide Survivors: Misunderstood Grievers" is about families that have faced murder and how they have dealt with the trauma. It offers an interpretation of personal accounts of homicide survivors in order to understand the particular nature of homicide bereavement. The author herself a homicide ...
Friendgrief: An Absence Called Presence
1st Edition
By Harold Ivan Smith
December 19, 2018
This book not only examines friendgrief from a theoretical and clinical framework, but also Smith offers fascinating vignettes from the lives of well-known friendgrievers such as Elton John, Diane Sawyer, Ralph Abernathy, C. S. Lewis, Harry Truman, Tommy Lasorda, Jimmy Carter, Fritz Mondale, Bill ...
For the Living: Coping, Caring and Communicating with the Terminally Ill
1st Edition
By Mark Golubow
August 14, 2018
Rarely heard about in our society are caregivers' thoughts and feelings about life, death, and dying and how they act on those feelings. "For the Living: Coping, Caring and Communicating with the Terminally Ill" provides an in-depth, qualitative look at the experiences of oncology healthcare ...
Grieving Reproductive Loss: The Healing Process
1st Edition
By Kathleen Gray, Anne Lassance
August 14, 2018
Grieving Reproductive Loss: The Healing Process acknowledges the devastating impact these losses can have. Written in ""plain language"", the book attempts to bring about a greater understanding of the grief associated with reproductive loss and, through the Healing Process Model[copyright], offers...