Death and Dying: A Sociological Introduction

Introduction.

PART I. SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ATTITUDES TO DEATH.

1. Death, Denial and Diversity.

2. When and How People Die.

3. Life and Death in "Risk Society’.

4. Death, Religion and Spirituality.

5. Death and the Media.

PART II. SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES OF DYING.

6. Dying: Institutionalization and Medicalization.

7. The Good Death.

8. The Social Organization of Sudden Death.

9. The Dying and the Dead Body.

PART III. POST-DEATH RITUALS OF REMEMBRANCE AND SURVIVAL BELIEFS.

10. Grief and Loss.

11. Relationships Between the Living and the Dead.

12. Mortuary Rituals.

Conclusion: Resurrecting Death?.

Notes.

References.

Index.