Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve, A Cultural Study
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"The most comprehensive multidisciplinary contemplation of mortality we are likely to get." -Thomas Lynch, New York Times Book Review The New York Times - Thomas Lynch Gilbert's book instructs and inspires, ennobles and emboldens. Undertakers and anthropologists, the reverend clergy and good doctors, hospice workers and the recently bereaved, poets and common readers of uncommon books are hereby encouraged to have a look.
Pt. 1Arranging my mourning : five meditations on the psychology of grief1Death opens2Widow3Yahrzeit4E-mail to the dead5Writing wrongPt. 2History makes death : how the twentieth century reshaped dying and mourning6Expiration/termination7Technologies of death8Technologies of dying9A day in the death of...10Millennial mourningPt. 3The handbook of heartbreak : contemporary elegy and lamentation11On the beach with Sylvia Plath12Was the nineteenth century different, and luckier?13"Rats' alley" and the death of pastoral14Monsters of elegy15Apocalypse now (and then)
