What Death Means Now
Thinking Critically about Dying and Grieving
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Published:30th Aug '17
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Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live. Dying and grieving continually evolve: new preparations for dying, new kinds of funerals, new ways of handling grief and new ways to memorialise are developing all the time.
Bringing 25 years of research and teaching in the sociology of death and dying to this important book, Tony Walter engages critically with key questions such as: should we talk about death more and plan in advance? How effective is this as more people suffer frailty and dementia? How do physical migration and digital connection affect place-bound deathbeds, funerals and graves? Is the traditional funeral still relevant? Can burial and cremation be ecological? And how should we grieve: quietly, openly, or online?
"In this new work, Walter's encyclopaedic and critical gaze has produced another volume of analysis to be reckoned with." Allan Kellehear, University of Bradford
"Tony Walter brings scholarship and personal experience to this work, resulting in a book which offers a thought provoking read, suitable for both general readers and those with specialist knowledge." Glenys Caswell, University of Nottingham
"Tony Walter's intelligent and fascinating analysis of dying, disposal and our continuing relationship with the dead will make us all think again." Colin Murray Parkes, President of Cruse Bereavement Care
"An essential read...accessible, informative and critical, this pithy book challenges scholars and general readers alike to interrogate popular ideas about contemporary death and dying." Julie Ellis, University of Sheffield
“…an insightful and erudite exploration of death and dying, in a manner accessible to a general readership or those with a more specialist background… a strength of the text is how it incorporates a necessarily broad and holistic understanding of society’s approach to death and dying… an engaging and thoughtful exploration of contemporary Western attitudes towards death and dying.” Mortality
ISBN: 9781447337362
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144 pages