Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Disciplines

Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Emotion, Identity and Death -- 1 The Postmodern Obituary: Why Honesty Matters -- 2 Chronic Illness, Awareness of Death, and the Ambiguity of Peer Identification -- 3 Nationalization and Mediatized Ritualization: The Broadcast Farewell of Fadime Sahindal -- 4 Wiring Death: Dying, Grieving and Remembering on the Internet -- 5 Individuals and Relationships: On the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Presence -- 6 Crafting Selves on Death Row -- 7 Sojourn, Transformative: Emotion and Identity in the Dying, Death, and Disposal of an Ex-Spouse -- 8 Seeing Differently: Place, Art, and Consolation -- 9 'Sacramentality' and Identity Transformation: Deathbed Rituals in Dutch Spiritual Care -- 10 Every Funeral Unique in (Y)our Way! Professionals Propagating Cremation Rituals -- 11 Designing a Place for Goodbye: The Architecture of Crematoria in the Netherlands -- 12 New Identity of All Souls' Day Celebrations in the Netherlands: Extra-Ecclesiastic Commemoration of the Dead, Art, and Religiosity -- 13 A Dream of Immortality: Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) -- 14 De morte transire ad vitam? Emotion and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Requiem Compositions -- 15 War without Death: America's Ingenious Plan to Defeat Enemies without Bloodshed -- Index.