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Speaking of Death America's New Sense of Mortality
Michael K. Bartalos, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-36426-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-36426-6
344 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/2008
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: In the post-9/11 moments, months, and years, America has come to develop a new mortality awareness. Death, and our understanding that it can be sudden and is certainly inevitable, is being talked about more than ever before. As the team in this volume shows through groundbreaking research, surveys, interviews, and vignettes, death awareness has grown strong, and has changed the way we think and act, not only in relation to ourselves and our loved ones, but in relation to society overall. Those changes include nuances from increases in the number and size of college courses focused on death, rapid growth of death books, death photography, television shows dealing with death, as well as the recording and dissemination of death videos from those that show family members dying peacefully to the execution of terrorists or their captives. Impromptu street creations to memorialize common people who have died have emerged, as have new ways to dispose of dead bodies, including blasting ashes into space or placing them under the sea or giving them a green resting place in a natural forest. Our means of grieving, coping, and beliefs about afterlife have been altered, too.

This work also includes a look at cosmologists and physicists who have revised their theories on humanity's legacy when our world meets a fateful end, who propose a means by which mankind's achievements might survive indefinitely, transporting from one universe to another without violating the known laws of physics. This book will intrigue all with an interest in considering not only death and how 9/11 changed America's views on and beliefs about it, but also considering what could lie beyond that end for all of us.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
    Preface
    Introduction - The Age of Encounter The New Reality
    Part I Manifestations of Mortality Awareness
    Chapter 1: From Concealment to Recognition- The Discourse on Death, Dying and Grief
    Chapter 2: Cancer Patients Facing Death: Is the Patient Who Focuses on Living in Denial of His/Her Death?
    Chapter 3: Afterlife in Modern America: The Public Sentiment
    Chapter 4: Life Extension: Proponents, Opponents, and the Social Impact of the Defeat of Death
    Chapter 5: Covering (Up) Death: A Close Reading of Timef magazine's September 11, 2001 Special Issue
    Part II From Awareness to Acceptance
    Chapter 6: Acceptance of Mortality: What Is Confirmed, What Is Denied?
    Chapter 7: Death, Terror, Culture, and Violence: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
    Chapter 8: When the Time Is Ripe for Acceptance: Dying, with a Small d
    Chapter 9: Alive and Content: The Art of Living with Mortality
    Part III Societal Aspects of the Acceptance of Dying
    Chapter 10: Coping with Mortality: A Societal Perspective
    Chapter 11: The Quest for Permanence: Scientific Visions of Surviving the Eventual Demise of Our Universe
    Series Afterword by J. Harold Ellens
    About the Editor and Contributors
About the Author: Michael K. Bartalos, M.D., is Physician and Co-Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Death. Trained at the Universities of Budapest and Heidelberg, as well as Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bartalos has been a longtime professor holding appointments in the departments of Psychiatry, Surgery, Internal Medicine, Genetics and Human Development, Pathology, Pediatrics and Radiology. His primary goal is to understand and assist the healing of body and mind. His many awards include a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, The Presidential Medal from the Republic of Hungary, and the Research Scholar Award at Howard University.
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