TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilbert,Sandra M.
TI  - Death's door: modern dying and the ways we grieve 
SN  - 0393051315 :
AV  - HQ1073 .G54 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Death
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Grief
KW  - Mourning customs
KW  - Attitude to Death
KW  - Bereavement
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [525]-553) and index; 1. Arranging my mourning: five meditations on the psychology of grief -- Death opens -- Widow -- Yahrzeit -- E-mail to the dead -- Writing wrong -- 2: History makes death: how the twentieth century reshaped dying and mourning -- Expiration/termination -- Technologies of death -- Technologies of dying -- A day in the death of ... -- Millennial mourning -- 3: The handbook of heartbreak: contemporary elegy and lamentation -- On the beach with Sylvia Plath -- Was the nineteenth century different, and luckier? -- "Rats' alley" and the death of pastoral -- Monsters of elegy -- Apocalypse now (and then)
ER  -