death

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      318 words ...death / de[unvoicedth] / • n. the action or fact of dying...animal dying. ∎  the state of being dead: even in death, she was beautiful. ∎  the permanent ending of vital processes in a cell or tissue. ∎  ( Death ) [in sing. ] the personification of the power that ...

The Psychology of Death

Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The Psychology of Death Robert Kastenbaum. New York: Springer Publishing...41.95 (hardcover). The Psychology of Death is a short book composed of only seven chapters. Kastenbaum utilizes the subject of death as a mirror to reflect upon the entire...

Understanding death equips people for a much fuller life

Chicago Sun-Times;  May 10, 1987 ;     635 words ...Death inspires fear in many people. Yet there is a growing number who believe we must openly discuss death and dying. They say that understanding and accepting death as part of human experience will better equip people for fuller living. Death and dying are...

Elegy on Death

The Washington Post;  July 5, 2006 ;     700+ words ...DEATH'S DOOR Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve By Sandra M. Gilbert...580 pp. $29.95 Was there ever a time and place so vexed by death as millennial America? As news, as entertainment or as something...gently to the grave. But what of the more immediate, personal death, the death in the family, the ...

Health educators' assessment of the course content of a proposed death and...

Research in Education;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...The concept of death and dying is as old as the concept of birth...in an additional member of the family, death and dying connote the termination of life...respectively. According to Leiper (1993) death and dying are removed from everyday experience...

Architecture: `The grief is big but I can share it by entertaining' A new...

The Independent - London;  June 25, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Social death acquired a new meaning last week when Battersea Arts Centre staged a "death party" to launch Matters of Life and Death, a month- long festival on the theme of death and dying. Given that death is life's gatecrasher, it was surprisingly...

Mourning isn't what it used to be.(Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways...

The Women's Review of Books;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve By Sandra Gilbert...from women's literature and feminist criticism to dying and death. Before 1991, Gilbert was best known as coauthor, with Susan...Women (1985). Since 1991, her major works include Wrongful Death: A Memoir (1995); Ghost Volcano (1996), a ...

Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914.(Book review)

Canadian Journal of History;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914, by Julie-Marie...Edwardian Britain, middle- and working-class attitudes to the death of a loved one often differed. In respectable, middle-class families the working-class response to death could appear unintelligible or highly suspect. Workers were...

Death's irreducible unruliness.(Book Review)

The Hastings Center Report;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Death is no abstraction in Robert Burts sophisticated cultural analysis of Americans struggle to deal with mortality. Instead, death is personified as a man moving among us, taking names. Your...prospect is unsettling, but Burt believes that ambivalence about death is ineradicable, and that the temptation ...

How Children View Death

The Washington Post;  May 31, 1988 ;     700+ words ...On Death: Helping Children Understand and Cope by Sarah...poignantly illustrates the unrealistic view of death typically held by young children. For most youngsters before the age of 5, death is not yet a terrible force to reckon with. When...

Dealing with death: your first death can leave you shaken and drained, but...

Nursing Standard;  October 2, 2002 ;     464 words ...DEATH IN today's society remains a taboo subject. It is often regarded...the public gaze. Certainly, for many nursing students, the death of a patient may be the first time they have seen a dead...grieving family. For others, it may be a reminder of the death of a close relative or friend. In either ...

Death by drug overdose: impact on families ([dagger]).(Short...

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Abstract--Death by overdose is loaded with social/moral...impact of these feelings on families facing death by overdose. Qualitative methodology was used to study six families with a history of death by overdose of one of their members. The...

EUROPEAN LINDY BURLEIGH IS LEFT COLD BY A PLAYFUL NOVEL ABOUT DEATH

The Sunday Telegraph London;  February 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Death at Intervals BY JOSE SARAMAGO TR BY MARGARET JULL COSTA HARVILL...use capital letters. The big idea is that the 'absence of death' doesn't make for an earthly paradise. In fact, it causes...and the undertaking business, who have a vested interest in death, want to bring it back, and the 'maphia' is ...

Death, Religion and the Family in England, 1480-1750.(Review)

History: Review of New Books;  June 22, 1999 ;     449 words ...Houlbrooke, Ralph Death, Religion and the Family in England, 1480-17...Reading and the editor of a fine study on death and bereavement, has written an impressively...the sixteenth century on attitudes toward death and dying, funeral customs, testamentary...

Death: The New Pornography

Australian Screen Education;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...What happened? How did death suddenly become so 'in'? In a world where...Times, May 10, 2004) IN LIFE, AT LEAST, DEATH IS UNAVOIDABLE. It's one of those things...But have a look at television and film - death is suddenly everywhere. Current affairs...