This text offers a systematic interdisciplinary approach to understanding the human encounter with mortality. All issues of major practical and theoretical concern are addressed. The diverse issues are integrated through the guiding concept of the "death system" that helps the reader to discern the connections between individual and societal orientations toward death. The author draws upon current research, scholarship, and personal experiences, as well as significant historical, philosophical, and literary contributions. Case histories and self-monitoring exercises are included.

Death, Society, and Human Experience

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kastenbaum, Robert

Psychology & Counseling

Allyn&Bacon

Growing old: Years of fulfillment (The Life cycle series)

Harper&Row

1979. Allyn and Bacon, Inc., Boston., 644 pages. 3lbs. (Over-sized 9.5 x 8 x 1.25 inches white hardcover with green and blue accents and blue and black lettering). Title: Humans Developing: A Lifespan Perspective by Robert Kastenbaum. ISBN#0205065139. Category: Psychology

Humans Developing: A Lifespan Perspective

Problems of Aging: Biological and Medical Aspects

Politics & Social Sciences

Cowdry, E. V.

Social Sciences

Ayer Co. Pub

In preparing this special issue of "Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying" - we choose to consider solidarity in a somewhat larger perspective than the other one usually adopted by a clear majority of social support studies. This perspective gives priority to microscopic, immediate, direct transactions between a focal individual - the one affected by the prospect of soon to come death and two classes of people: those included in the core of that person's personal network and the health care personnel treating and accompanying soon to die people, many of them already advanced into agony.

Death, Distress, and Solidarity: Special Issue "OMEGA Journal of Death and Dying"

Parenting & Relationships

Routledge

Is There Life after Death?

Methuen, 1984

How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country―and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of the inevitable end. In this book a preeminent and eminently wise writer on death and dying proposes a new way of understanding our last transition. A fresh exploration of the final passage through life and perhaps through death, his work deftly interweaves historical and contemporary experiences and reflections to demonstrate that we are always on our way. Drawing on a remarkable range of observations―from psychology, anthropology, religion, biology, and personal experience―Robert Kastenbaum re-envisions life's forward-looking progress, from early-childhood bedtime rituals to the many small rehearsals we stage for our final separation. Along the way he illuminates such moments and ideas as becoming a "corpsed person," going down to earth or up in flames, respecting or abusing (and eating) the dead, coping with "too many dead," conceiving and achieving a "good death," undertaking the journey of the dead, and learning to live through the scrimmage of daily life fully knowing that Eternity does not really come in a designer flask. Profound, insightful, often moving, this look at death as many cultures await it or approach it enriches our understanding of life as a never-ending passage.

On Our Way: The Final Passage through Life and Death (Volume 3) (Life Passages)

University of California Press

"Is There Life After Death?" is a tour de force. Robert Kastenbaum, one of America’s most distinguished clinical psychologists, acclaimed for his work in adult development, aging, dying, suicide, and bereavement, conducts a sustained debate with himself on the evidence for and against survival. The reader plays jury as the author adopts, alternately, the stance of ardent critic and ardent advocate. A range of experiments, happenings, research, and a variety of beliefs are unfolded for examination in scientific, psychological, philosophical, social, and even political terms. Central to the debate is the question: What is admissible evidence for survival? Near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, poltergeist phenomena, phantom sightings - all are possible candidates, but Professor Kastenbaum carefully selects those cases that are most fully documented and have occurred within reach of cameras, recording devices, and critical bystanders. In the last chapter he transcends the adversary approach to suggest that the more we understand the universe and ourselves, the more obvious it becomes that what we call "death" is not the end of life.

Is There Life After Death?

Religion & Spirituality

Prentice Hall Direct

Death, society, and human experience

Self-Help

Death & Grief

C.E. Merrill Pub. Co.

This landmark text on the sociology of death and dying draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage of understanding death and the dying process. The text focuses on both individual and societal attitudes and how they influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss. Robert Kastenbaum is a renowned scholar in the field who developed one of the world's first death education courses and introduced the first text for this market.

Death, society, & human experience

Mosby

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