Remember me : constructing immortality : beliefs on immortality, life, and death / edited by Margaret Mitchell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Constructing immortality : the role of the dead in everyday life / Margaret Mitchell -- The rebirth of death : continuing relationships with the dead / Glennys Howarth -- Sustaining kinship : ritualisation and the disposal of human ashes in the United Kingdom / Jenny Hockey, Leonie Kellaher, and David Prendergast -- "Rachel comforted" : spiritualism and the reconstruction of the body after death / Joanna Bourke -- Collective memory and forgetting : components for a study of obituaries / Bridget Fowler -- Fever / Kathryn Hughes -- The will : inheritance distribution and feuding families / Deirdre Drake -- Complaints about health care in the United Kingdom following a person's death / Judith Allsop -- Knowing by heart : remembering victims of intra-familial homicide / Carolyn Harris Johnson -- Psychosocial death following traumatic brain injury / Camilla Herbert -- Should suicides be reported in the media? A critique of research / Gerard Sullivan -- Family disputes, dysfunction, and division : case studies of road traffic deaths / Lauren Breen and Moira O'Connor -- Dark tourism : the role of sites of death in tourism / J. John Lennon and Margaret Mitchell -- Immortality work : photographs as memento mori / Halla Beloff -- Art as afterlife : posthumous self-presentation by eminent painters / Robert Wyatt -- The eternal cadaver : anatomy and its representation / Monique Kornell -- Representing trauma : the case for troubling images / Richard Read.

"The ways in which one's relationship with loved ones continues, endures, and perhaps even grows after the biological death of that loved one is the basis for this important new text. Much of the available literature speaks of healthy bereavement as meaning letting go of the deceased and moving forward with life. This new text challenges that notion.The living, as presented in these innovative chapters, to construct social entities of those who have died Indeed, via the carrying out of wishes in the Will; pursuits legal claims; or simply attributing certain desires, emotions, or choices to the deceased reconstitutes them as active, even vital, voices even after biological death. Just as life itself, the end of life and death is an interdisciplinary matter. This volume brings together coherent chapters from a worldwide group of contributors with a range of disciplinary perspectives on the meaning attributed to death and to the anticipation of death. A clear psychological theme and focus ties together; these perspectives under three conceptual areas: the anticipation of death; the social life of the deceased; the legal embodiment of the deceased."--Publisher description.

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