Full Description
This final volume of ""Death and Bereavement Around the World"" reflects on some major themes: death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches, cultural variations, suicide, and other issues. The first few chapters describe progress in end-of-life care, including some new tools to evaluate hospice care (chapter 1); what children know, when they know it, and how parents can respond to questions, with some guidelines for support by schools (chapter 2); the importance of ritual (chapter 3); and, gender differences in death customs around the world (chapter 4).The transcript of a 1997 interview of John (Jack) Morgan by Pittu Laungani is presented as chapter 5. The following chapters discuss death systems and suicide (chapter 6); HIV/AIDS, including the role of cultural and economic factors in the spread of the disease (chapter 7); and grief and bereavement in the developing world, taking the AIDS pandemic as a specific challenge (chapter 8). Chapter 9 covers issues related to dying and death in Romania. In chapter 10 the focus is on the various functions and uses of names in a cross-cultural context. Roadside memorials as a pivotal healing strategy are the topic of chapter 11. Chapters 12 and 13 focus on spiritual experience with loss.The final chapter presents some conclusions, and in the Epilogue, Mary Ann Morgan honors the life, career, dying, death, and achievements of John (Jack) Morgan. The 'Final Word' includes the words of Pittu Laungani, from a book published just weeks before his death in February 2007.This work is for anyone interested in or working in death and bereavement issues, particularly academics, educators, librarians, chaplains, clergy, funeral service directors, hospice care providers and volunteers, palliative care providers, nurses, immigration officers, psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists, and counselors, especially bereavement counselors.
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME, PART 1, PART 2, CHAPTER 1 End of Life Care CHAPTER 2 Children and Death Around the World CHAPTER 3 Ritual: Making Special: The Right of Every Griever CHAPTER 4 Gender Differences in Death Customs Around the World CHAPTER 5 Pittu Laungani in Conversation with John D. Morgan CHAPTER 6 Death Systems and Suicide Around the World CHAPTER 7 AIDS = Death CHAPTER 8 Grief and Bereavement in the Developing World CHAPTER 9 Death and Bereavement in Romania CHAPTER 10 Names and their Uses CHAPTER 11 Roadside Memorials: Beyond Individual Grieving CHAPTER 12 Spiritual Experiences with Loss: Encouragement or Disaster? CHAPTER 13 Spirituality, Dying, Death, and Bereavement: Time for a Radically Expanded Definition of Spirituality CHAPTER 14 Conclusion EPILOGUE Reflection on the Life of John Daniel Morgan: A Journey to Wholeness FINAL WORD
