The Revival Of Death

Talking about death is now fashionable but how should we talk? Who should welisten to priests doctors cousellors or ourselves? Has psychology replacedreligion ... » 

Talking about death is now fashionable but how should we talk? Who should welisten to priests doctors cousellors or ourselves? Has psychology replacedreligion in telling us how to die? This provocative book takes a sociologicallook at the revival of interest in death focusing on the hospice movement andbereavement counselling. It will be required reading for anyone interested inthe sociology of death and caring for the dying the dead or bereaved. «