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Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defining death, to suggesting what happens after life. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying provides readers with an overview of the study of death and dying. Questions of death, mortality, and more recently of end-of-life care, have long been important ones and scholars from a range of fields have approached the topic in a number of ways.

An overview of beliefs in an afterlife from major world religions -- Ancient conceptions -- Judaism -- Christianity -- Islam -- Hinduism -- Buddhism -- Chinese religions -- African religions -- An overview of the research into experiences of an afterlife -- Mediumship -- Apparitions and hauntings -- Near-death and out-of-body experiences -- Past-life memories -- Beliefs and experiences: an attempt at a synthesis -- Comparison of beliefs -- Comparison of phenomena -- Speculations on mysticism and the afterlife

Review of Annalee Newitz. Pretend we're dead: Capitalist monsters in American pop culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Paperback, $22.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0822337454.

As we think about death -- What is death? -- Denial or adaptation: the death system -- Dying -- Hospice and palliative care -- End-of-life issues and decisions -- Suicide -- Violent death : murder, terrorism, genocide, disaster, and accident -- Euthanasia, assisted death, abortion, and the right to die -- Death in the world of childhood -- Bereavement, grief, and mourning -- The funeral process -- Do we survive death? -- How can we help? -- Good life, good death?

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