Research Catalog

Title

Voices of death / Edwin Shneidman.

Author

Shneidman, Edwin S.

Publication

New York : Harper & Row, ©1980.

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Details

Description

xii, 206 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"...Writing...stimulated by series of incidents...several hundred suicide notes...filed away...in the vaults of the coroner's office in Los Angeles; a young woman at a symposium...[later sent] tapes describing her life and her immolation; a diary of a thirty-year old doctor who died of leukemia; pamphlets obtained from Auschwitz written by camp victims...[author's] goals: to share with the reader what I know about death and death documents and the theories I have developed about the psychology of suicide, terminal illness and execution; and, at other times, to stand back out of the way so that the reader may have direct contact with the documents themselves; and finally, to show how the different kinds of life-threatening situations are similar to each other and how each is separate to itself..."--preface.

Subject

• Death
• Death > Psychological aspects
• Attitude to Death
• Death
• deaths
• Death > Psychological aspects

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

The rutters of death -- Return from death: reflections of fortuitous survivors -- Self-destruction: suicide notes and tragic lives -- Execution: letters of enforced death -- Malignancy: dialogues with life-threatening illnesses -- Self-mourning and premourning: preparations before the act -- Mourning: voices of the bereaved -- Toward a better death.

ISBN

• 0060140232
• 9780060140236

LCCN

79002636

OCLC

• ocm05264852
• 5264852
• SCSB-2912

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library