Making sense of dying and death / edited by Andrew Fagan.

Includes bibliographical references.

Life in the heart / Asa Kasher -- Sorrow unconsoling and inconsolable sorrow : grief as a moral and religious practice / Darlene Fozard Weaver -- Understanding our pain : the experiences of African American women through the death and dying process / Clarice Ford -- Terror of death in the wake of September 11th : is this the end of death denial? / Kate Arthur -- Kafka's God of suffocation : the futility of 'facing' death / David Johnson -- Personal and collective fears of death : a complex intersection for cancer survivors / Heather McKenzie -- Last matters : the latent meanings of contemporary funeral rites / Mira Crouch -- Neither dead-nor-alive : organ donation and the paradox of 'living corpses' / Vera Kalitzkus -- Avoidable death : multiculturalism and respecting patient autonomy / Andrew Fagan -- The "euthanasia underground" and its implications for the harm minimization debate : an Australian perspective / Roger S. Magnusson -- "Suicides have a special language" : practicing literary suicide with Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and John Berryman / Clare Emily Clifford -- Time to die : the temporality of death and the philosophy of singularity / Gary Peters.

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