Act one : excerpts from 1973 Deaths of man
Introduction
Death work and stages of dying
An appropriate death
Postvention and the survivor-victim
The postself
Personal and impersonal aspects of death
Ambivalence and subintention
Death and the state
The death certificate
The psychological autopsy
Megadeath : children of the nuclear family
Afterword
Intermission : a retrospective review of Deaths of man
Introduction
A classic of thanatology / M. Brewster Smith
Act two : revised thoughts of Deaths of man, thirty-five years later
Introduction
One fundamental attribute of death : on and off
Two basic orientations toward death : mine and yours
Three stances toward death : intentioned, subintentioned, unintentioned
Four traditional categories of death : natural, accident, suicide, homicide
Clarifying equivocal deaths
A psychological autopsy in a military setting
An appropriate death : criteria for a good-enough death
Commonalities of suicide : a cubic model
The coarsening of death : postvention
The postself : survival after death
Matinee
Introduction
"Wednesdays with Ed" : a report by the author's psychotherapist / Ethel Oderberg
Mourning after.
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A commonsense book of death : reflections at ninety of a lifelong thanatologist by Edwin S. Shneidman. ISBN 9780742563315. Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
