Grief, mourning and death ritual

Theories of grief : a critical review ; Is grief an illness : issues of theory in relation to cultural diversity and the grieving process ; Four siblings' perspectives on parent death : a family focus ; 'Naturalizing' death among older adults in residential care ; Just an old-fashioned love song or a 'harlequin romance' : some experiences of widowhood ; Discourse into practice : the production of bereavement care ; The skills we need : bereavement counselling and governmentality in England ; 'You have to get inside a person' or making grief private : image and metaphor in the therapeutic reconstruction of bereavement ; Supporting bereaved children at school ; The Child Death Helpline ; A place for my child : the evolution of a candle service ; Changing death rituals ; Funeral ritual past and present ; Forget me not : memorialization in cemeteries and crematoria ; The cemetery : the evidence of continuing bonds ; Hindu death and mourning rituals : the impact of geographic mobility ; Grieving in public ; Post-disaster rituals ; Conclusion ; Useful organizations and addresses ; Index

This book focuses on what happens after a death has taken place. Drawing on social theory and anthropology, contributors examine responses to death as they occur within the unique set of cultural, social and historical circumstances which characterizes post-war society.