End of life communication : stories from the dead zone / by Christine S. Davis and Jonathan L. Crane.
"This book examines the dialectic between fictional death as depicted in the media and real death as it is experienced in a hospital setting. Using a Terror Management theoretical lens, Davis and Crane explore the intersections of life and death, experience and fiction, to understand the relati...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A mortality tale : narrative management of death
- Death as vertigo : the day time stood still
- Death as disequilibrium : things that go 'bump' in the night
- Death as a cry for help : an unimaginable prayer
- Death as a horrible other : a relationship with the other side
- An ode to childhood's joy : an antidote to the hyperreality of death
- Death as a jokester : the last laugh
- Death as a relationship : death, love, and loss
- Death as a lover : eternal flame
- Death as a weapon : dying for a cause
- Death as a foe : waging war on death
- Death as a roommate : living with death
- Death as a way of life : living death
- Death as a threshold : letting go.