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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a selection of articles from authors representing a wide array of disciplines, all of whom explore the following central theme: how can the presence of the dead take life in the hearts of the living? Although individuals die, they can indeed remain “present.” But how? Authors in this volume explicate practical mourning strategies to help survivors cope with the tremendous sadness and emptiness experienced when we lose someone we love.
Table of ContentsNate Hinerman and Julia Apollonia Glahn: Introduction: The Presence of the Dead in Our Lives Death, Presence, and the Self Peter Caws: Pragmatic Immortality and the Insignificance of My Own Death Julia Apollonia Glahn: On the Notion of Presence and its Importance for a Concept of Dignity of the Dead Dhruv Raj Nagar: The Deathless Self: Death and Immortality in the Discourse of Vedanta Marga Altena and Nothando Ngwenya: Sites that Cope, Cure and Commemorate: Weblogs of Terminally Ill Shulamith Kreitler, Frida Barak, Yasmin Alkalay, and Nava Siegelman-Danieli: Survivor’s Guilt in Caretakers of Cancer Death, Presence, and Ritual Tolulope Onabolu: The Haunt/Demons and The Complex of Noon Glenys Caswell: Planning a Funeral: The Encounter between Bereaved and Officiant Marcel Reyes-Cortez: Living with the Dead: Cremating and Reburying the Dead in a Megalopolis Susan M. Behuniak: Heroic Death and Selective Memory: The US’s WWII Memorial and the USSR’s Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Nate Hinerman: Preserving the Dead in the Lives of the Living
