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afterlife, 86–128, 158–60 aging, fear of, 15 Albom, Mitch, 8, 14, 16, 21 ancestors, as guardian angels, 149. See also dead, as ancestors Anderson, Benedict, 85, 157 angels, 99–100, 122, 206 n. 10 Angels Flight, 152 Apolito, Paolo, 55, 205 n. 9, 209 n. 16 Appadurai, Arjun, 217 n. 8 Aquinas, Thomas, 62, 97 Ariès, Philippe, 5–8, 22, 84, 125 Aristotle, 97, 184 ars moriendi, 6, 8, 10–11, 44, 84, 188, 203 n. 3 Attig, Thomas, 141 Atwater, P. M. H., 120–21, 123–24 Augustine, 23, 97–98, 107 autopsy, nineteenth century, 42. See also Société d’Autopsie Mutuelle Banaras, 36–37 Barrett, Ronald K., 195–96 Becker, Ernest, 4–5 Bell, Catherine, 32 Bellah, Robert N., 112 Bernardin, Joseph Cardinal, 12–14, 16–17, 19–21, 188 bioethics, 58–59, 85 Bloom, Harold, 26, 110–11 Bluebond-Langner, Myra, 130, 138 body (corpse): disposal of 62–63, 73, 80–85, 87, 107; preparation of, 132; purification of, 34–36, 44. See also burial; cremation bone reading, 133–34, 159–60 Bostrom, Kathleen, 147–48 brain death, 56, 63–64, 209 n. 12 Breslin, Jimmy, 167 Broca, Paul, 42 Broca’s Area, 43 Bronx Lourdes, 28–29 Brooks, Patricia, 153 Brooke, John L., 110–11 burial: premature, 46–47; secondary, 158–60; societies, 33–34. See also ecoburial; body (corpse), disposal of Bynum, Caroline Walker, 62, 97–98 Byock, Ira, 193 Cann, Beverley, 234 n. 12 care mapping, 197 Carlisle Cemetery, 81–82, 214 n. 13 Carlson, Lisa, 84, 214 n. 16 Cassell, Joan, 233 n. 7 Cassity, Tyler, 229 n. 20 cemeteries: 145, 168–71; online “virtual,” 177–84 cessation of eating, 18, 36–37 Charlotte’s Web. See White, E. B. Chen, Pauline, 194, 233 n. 7 Cherry, Christopher, 126–27 Chevalier, Victor, 41–42 chevra kaddisha, 33–36, 206 n. 3 Chiong, Winston, 211 n. 1 Chochinov, Harvey, 234 n. 12 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 102–12, 127–28, 219 n. 15, 220 n. 17 cloning, 25 Columbine high school killings, 153 coma, 64, 209 n. 12 Conkin, Paul, 204 n. 6 Cooey, Paula, 85 cremation: Hindu, 36–37; North America, 74, 80, 107 Cruzan, Nancy, 49, 57, 60, 63 cryonics, 25, 175 cult of memory, 143–44; 160–86. See also memory as moral practice D’Andrade, Roy, 131 Danforth, Loring, 132–34 Dante, 88 de Certeau, Michel, 95–96, 102, 104, 190, 231 n. 2 de Chardin, Teilhard, 121 De Palm, Joseph Henry Louis Charles, 80 dead: as ancestors, 88, 90, 108–12; communicating with, 90–93, 98–99; relationships with the living, 88–96, 98, 143, 189. See also cult of memory death: altruism in, 44, 72; “bad,” 11; and bibliotherapy , 130, 135; as celebration of life, 39, 152–53, 160, 189; clinically defined, 126; and cyberspace, 175–84; denial of, 4–5, 7–9, 11; “with dignity,” 51, 61, 192, 210 n. 20; fear of, 4–5, 7; “good,” 2–3, 8, 11, 15, 17–19, 36, 51, 163, 192–93; as last enemy, 192; and liminality, 52–53; linked with “original sin,” 23–25; medical diagnosis, 48; as medically timed phenomenon , 48, 51, 60–61, 66; and memories , 95, 142–44, 147, 155–57, 159; as “natural,” 2, 31, 37, 210 n. 20; and nature, 42, 82–83, 144–46; as parturition, 255 INDEX death (continued) 38; of pets, 137–38, 140; as sleep, 77, 170; stages of 9–10; “tame,” 5–8, 22 Deloria, Vine, 216 n. 6 Deseret, 104 Didion, Joan, 226 n. 6 Doctrine and Covenants, LDS, 103, 105, 107 Durkheim, Émile, 201, 231 n. 1 dying: heroic style, 20; medicalized model (being in control), 17, 19, 44; religious, 12–14; trajectory, 67–69, 87; “with dignity ,” 11, 22 Eadie, Betty, 8, 112–14, 116–17, 121, 221 n. 20 Earnhardt, Dale, 227 n. 15 ecoburial, 81–83, 189 ecocemetery. See ecoburial Edwards, Jonathan, 191 Egyptian mummification, 74 embalming, 72–76, 211 n. 4, 212 n. 2 Embraced by the Light. See Eadie, Betty Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 101, 220 n. 19 epitaphs, 168–71 Epstein, Lawrence, 124 eulogy, 144, 161, 176–77 euthanasia, 2 Everett, Holly, 173–74 exhumation (in Greece), 132–34, 158–60 Family History Library, 109 Final Passages, 83–84 Forest Lawn, 170 Forever Enterprises, 83 Foucault, Michel, 230 n. 24 Fox, Renée C., 70–71 Francis, Doris, 79 Freud, Sigmund, 7 Funeral and Memorial Society of America, 83–84...
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