Emotion, identity, and death mortality across disciplines

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The postmodern obituary : why honesty matters / Tim Bullamore -- Chronic illness, awareness of death, and the ambiguity of peer identification / Eva Jeppsson Grassman -- Nationalization and mediatized ritualization : the broadcast farewell of Fadime Sahindal / Eva Reimers -- Wiring death : dying, grieving and remembering on the internet / Tim Hutchings -- Individuals and relationships : on the possibilities and impossibilities of presence / Arnar Árnason -- Crafting selves on death row / Tamara Kohn -- Sojourn, transformative : emotion and identity in the dying, death, and disposal of an ex-spouse / Jacque Lynn Foltyn -- Seeing differently : place, art, and consolation / Christina Marsden Gillis -- 'Sacramentaliy' and identity transformation : deathbed rituals in Dutch spiritual care / Thomas Quartier -- Every funeral unique in (y)our way! : professionals propagating cremation rituals / Meike Heessels -- Designing a place for goodbye : the architecture of crematoria in the Netherlands / Mirjam Klaassens and Peter Groote -- New identity of All Souls' Day celebrations in the Netherlands : extra-ecclesiastic commemoration of the dead, art, and religiosity / Eric Venbrux -- A dream of immortality : Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (the song of the earth) / Kyun-Ah Kim -- De morte transire ad vitam? : emotion and identity in nineteenth-century requiem compositions / Wolfgang Marx -- War without death : America's ingenious plan to defeat enemies without bloodshed / John Troyer.