End of Life Communication: Stories from the Dead Zone

ISBN-13: 9781138231726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Christine Davis; Jonathan Crane

Opis

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 relationship between them.

Spis treści

1. A Mortality Tale: Narrative Management of Death  2. Death as Vertigo: The Day Time Stood Still  3. Death as Disequilibrium: Things that Go ‘Bump’ in the Night  4. Death as a Cry for Help: An Unimaginable Prayer  5. Death as a Horrible Other: A Relationship with the Other Side  6. An Ode to Childhood’s Joy: An Antidote to the Hyperreality of Death  7. Death as a Jokester: The Last Laugh  8. Death as a Relationship: Death, Love, and Loss  9. Death as a Lover: Eternal Flame  10. Death as a Weapon: Dying for a Cause  11. Death as a Foe: Waging War on Death  12. Death as a Roommate: Living with Death  13. Death as a Way of Life: Living Death  14. Death as a Threshold: Letting Go  Coda