Sociology: Death & Dying

About 30 percent of hospice patients report a visitation by someone who is not there, a phenomenon known in end-of-life care as a deathbed vision. ...

The neurological criteria for the determination of death remain controversial within secular and Catholic circles, even though they are widely acce...

BOOK OF THE YEAR IN SPECTATOR AND TIMES'Fascinating.... Deeply disturbing... Brilliant' Sunday Times'Powerful and moving.' Louis TherouxMeet Adam. ...

If you caught a glimpse of heaven, would you choose to come back to life? Investigative journalist Judy Bachrach has collected accounts of those wh...

Surviving after suicide means being stigmatized by society. Stigma is the fundamental factor that darkens the lives of the bereaved, overshadowing ...

Can a state make its people forget the dead?Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted...

In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr. Norman Straker proposes that death anxiety is responsible fo...

Calling in the Soul (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on e...

Contemporary audiences are often shocked to learn that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medical students around the world posed for photo...

Death studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edi...

In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relat...

Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-gen...

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives ...

If death is the cessation of life, then, as a concept, it draws its meaning from the preceding life. While death and dying are inextricably connect...

Life, Death, and the Western Way of War traces when and how western soldiers--once regarded as simple fighting tools--became the far less expendabl...