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Remember Me Margaret Mitchell (Edith Cowan University)

Remember Me By Margaret Mitchell (Edith Cowan University)

Remember Me by Margaret Mitchell (Edith Cowan University)


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Much of the literature speaks of healthy bereavement as letting go of the deceased and moving forward with life. This title challenges that notion, discussing the meaning attributed to death and to the anticipation of death. It looks at the ways in which one's relationship with loved ones continues, endures, and perhaps even grows after death.

Remember Me Summary

Remember Me: Constructing Immortality - Beliefs on Immortality, Life, and Death by Margaret Mitchell (Edith Cowan University)

Remember Me brings together contributors from around the world with unique insight on the ways in which one's relationship with loved ones continues, endures, and perhaps even grows after death.

Much of the available literature speaks of healthy bereavement as letting go of the deceased and moving forward with life. This new text challenges that notion, discussing the meaning attributed to death and to the anticipation of death.

The living, as presented in these innovative chapters, construct social entities of those who have died, via the carrying out of wishes in the Will; pursuing legal claims; or simply attributing certain desires, emotions, or choices to the deceased reconstitutes them as active, even vital, voices even after biological death. Just as life itself, the end of life and death is an interdisciplinary matter. A clear psychological theme and focus ties together these perspectives under three conceptual areas: the anticipation of death; the social life of the deceased and the legal embodiment of the deceased.

Remember Me Reviews

The more I got into the books, the more fascinating it became...informative and thought-provoking. The strange quality of the book is summed up for me by the fact that the namesakes of both authors of 'Dark Tourism' have death sites that draw visitors many years after their death-Margaret Mitchell and John Lennon. I highly recommend this book, possibly more for those who work existentially, or those prepared to explore 'outside of the box'. ---Angela Cooper, Psychotherapist

About Margaret Mitchell (Edith Cowan University)

Margaret Mitchell, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia and Director of the Sellenger Centre for Research in Law, Justice and Policing. She first became interested in the social context of death while working with Strathclyde Police in Glasgow, Scotland on the aftermath of the Lockerbie Disaster in 1988 and studying its impact on emergency workers and the community.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. Mitchell, Constructing Immortality: The Role of the Dead in Everyday Life. Howarth, The Rebirth of Death: Continuing Relationships with the Dead. Hockey, Kellaher, Prendergast, Sustaining Kinship: Ritualization and the Disposal of Human Ashes in the United Kingdom. Bourke, Rachel Comforted: Spiritualism and the Reconstruction of the Body After Death. Fowler, Collective Memory and Forgetting: Components for a Study of Obituaries. Hughes, Fever. Drake, The Will: Inheritance Distribution and Feuding Families. Allsop, Complaints About Health Care in the United Kingdom Following a Person's Death. Johnson, Knowing by Heart: Remembering Victims of Intrafamilial Homicide. Herbert, Psychosocial Death Following Traumatic Brain Injury. Sullivan, Should Suicide be Reported in the Media? A Research Note. Breen, O'Connor, Family Disputes, Dysfunction, and Division: Case Studies of Road Traffic Deaths. Lennon, Mitchell, Dark Tourism: The Role of Sites of Death in Tourism. Beloff, Immortality Work: Photographs as Memento Mori. Wyatt, Art as Afterlife: Posthumous Self-presentation by Eminent Painters. Kornell, The Eternal Cadaver: Anatomy and its Representation. Read, Representing Trauma: The Case for Troubling Images.

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GOR005792763
9780415954853
0415954851
Remember Me: Constructing Immortality - Beliefs on Immortality, Life, and Death by Margaret Mitchell (Edith Cowan University)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20070130
260
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