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Today most people die gradually, from incremental illnesses, rather than from the heart attacks or fast-moving diseases that killed earlier generations. Given this new reality, the essays in Final Acts explore how we can make informed and caring end-of-life choices for ourselves and for those we loveùand what can happen without such planning. Contributors include patients, caretakers, physicians, journalists, lawyers, social workers, educators, hospital administrators, academics, psychologists, and a poet, and among them are ethicists, religious believers, and nonbelievers. Some write moving, personal accounts of "good" or 'bad" deaths; others examine the ethical, social, and political implications of slow dying. Essays consider death from natural causes, suicide, and aid-in-dying (assisted suicide). Writing in a style free of technical jargon, the contributors discuss documents that should be prepared (health proxy, do-not-resuscitate order, living will, power of attorney); decision-making (over medical interventions, life support, hospice and palliative care, aid-in-dying, treatment location, speaking for those who can no longer express their will); and the roles played by religion, custom, family, friends, caretakers, money, the medical establishment, and the government. For those who yearn for some measure of control over death, the essayists in Final Acts, from very different backgrounds and with different personal and professional experiences around death and dying, offer insight and hope.

Thanatology. --- Death. --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Cardiac Death --- Determination of Death --- End Of Life --- End-Of-Life --- Near-Death Experience --- Death, Cardiac --- Fatal Outcome --- Philosophy

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Birth (Philosophy) --- Death --- Beginning --- Life --- Dying --- End of life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy --- Death. --- Birth (Philosophy).

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"Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby intensified at (and frequently contained within) certain sites and regulated spaces, such as the hospital, the cemetery and the mortuary. However, death also affects and unfolds in many other spaces: the home, public spaces and places of worship, sites of accident, tragedy and violence. Such spaces, or Deathscapes, are intensely private and personal places, while often simultaneously being shared, collective, sites of experience and remembrance; each place mediated through the intersections of emotion, body, belief, culture, society and the state. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, cultural studies academics and historians among others, this book focuses on the relationships between space/place and death/ bereavement in 'western' societies. Addressing three broad themes: the place of death; the place of final disposition; and spaces of remembrance and representation, the chapters reflect a variety of scales ranging from the mapping of bereavement on the individual or in private domestic space, through to sites of accident, battle, burial, cremation and remembrance in public space. The book also examines social and cultural changes in death and bereavement practices, including personalisation and secularisation. Other social trends are addressed by chapters on green and garden burial, negotiating emotion in public/ private space, remembrance of violence and disaster, and virtual space. A meshing of material and 'more-than-representational' approaches consider the nature, culture, economy and politics of Deathscapes - what are in effect some of the most significant places in human society"--Back cover.

Philosophical anthropology --- Sociology of culture --- Death. --- Bereavement. --- Mort --- Deuil --- Loss of loved ones by death --- Consolation --- Death --- Loss (Psychology) --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy --- Mort. --- Deuil. --- deaths. --- mourning. --- Tod. --- Brauch. --- Bestattung. --- Totengedächtnis. --- Bereavement

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Journalism --- Death --- Press coverage. --- Social aspects. --- #SBIB:309H1025 --- #SBIB:309H506 --- #SBIB:309H507 --- Press --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Mediaboodschappen met een informatieve functie --- Code en boodschap: inhoudsanalyse: theorie en methodologie --- Code en boodschap: narrativiteitstheorie --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Press coverage

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The history of death is a vital part of human history, and a study of dying and grief takes us to the heart of any culture. Since the First World War there has been a tendency to privatize death, and to minimize the expression of grief and the rituals of mourning. Jalland explores the nature and scope of this cultural shift.

Death --- Bereavement --- Grief --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Mort --- Deuil --- Chagrin --- Funérailles --- Social aspects --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Rites et cérémonies --- Mourning --- Sorrow --- Emotions --- Loss (Psychology) --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Loss of loved ones by death --- Consolation --- Philosophy