The Unknown Country: Death in Australia, Britain and the USA

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Death in the Country of Matilda....Pages 1-14
Secular, Savage and Solitary: Death in Australian Painting....Pages 15-30
Good Girls Die, Bad Girls Don’t: the Uses of the Dying Virgin in Nineteenth-century Australian Fiction....Pages 31-44
Prayers to Broken Stones: War and Death in Australia....Pages 45-57
The Legacy of Suicide: the Impact of Suicide on Families....Pages 58-71
Death and the Great Australian Disaster....Pages 72-83
Is There a British Way of Death?....Pages 84-97
Women, Death and In Memoriam Notices in a Local British Newspaper....Pages 98-112
The Social Construction of Funerals in Britain....Pages 113-126
Emotional Reserve and the English Way of Grief....Pages 127-140
Why was England the First Country to Popularize Cremation?....Pages 141-154
The Public Construction of AIDS Deaths in the United Kingdom....Pages 155-168
The American Ways of Death....Pages 169-183
You Never Have to Die! On Mormons NDEs, Cryonics, and the American Immortalist Ethos....Pages 184-197
Death, Dying and Bioethics: Current Issues in the USA....Pages 198-212
Managing the Spectre of Death: the War against Drug Use and AIDS in America....Pages 213-228
Grief and Loss of Self....Pages 229-241
Diversity in Universality: Dying, Death and Grief....Pages 242-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-268