On our way : the final passage through life and death

On our way : the final passage through life and death / Robert Kastenbaum.

Publisher's description: How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country--and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kastenbaum, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004.
Series:Life passages ; 3
Subjects:
Death > Psychological aspects.
Death > Social aspects.
Future life.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
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Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • 1. Here (?) we are
  • 2. Practicing death : some rituals of everyday life
  • 3. Good death, bad death (I) : in other times and places
  • 4. Good death, bad death (II) : here and now
  • 5. Corpsed persons
  • 6. Abusing and eating the dead
  • 7. Too many dead : the plague and other mass deaths
  • 8. Down to earth and up in flames
  • 9. Journey of the dead
  • 10. Living through
  • Notes
  • Sources cited
  • Index.

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