Parting Ways: New Rituals and Celebrations of Life's Passing - Couverture rigide

Carson, Denise

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520251083 ISBN 13 : 9780520251083

Editeur : University of California Press, 2011

Synopsis

Parting Ways explores the emergence of new end-of-life rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community at the deathbed. Denise Carson contrasts her father's passing in the 1980s, governed by the structures of institutionalized death, with her mother's death some two decades later. Carson's moving account of her mother's dying at home vividly portrays a ceremonial farewell known as a living wake, showing how it closed the gap between social and biological death while opening the door for family and friends to reminisce with her mother. Carson also investigates a variety of solutions--living funerals, oral ethical wills, and home funerals--that revise the impending death scenario. Integrating the profoundly personal with the objectively historical, Parting Ways calls for an "end of life revolution" to change the way of death in America.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Denise Carson is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and a columnist at the Orange County Register, where she tells stories of how people celebrate the end of life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520251083
• ISBN 13: 9780520251083
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
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