Emotion, identity, and death: mortality across disciplines

Abstract

1. The postmodern obituary : why honesty matters / Tim Bullamore -- 2. Chronic illness, awareness of death, and the ambiguity of peer identification / Eva Jeppsson Grassman -- 3. Nationalization and mediatized ritualization : the broadcast farewell of Fadime Sahindal / Eva Reimers -- 4. Wiring death : dying, grieving and remembering on the internet / Tim Hutchings -- 5. Individuals and relationships : on the possibilities and impossibilities of presence / Arnar Arnason -- 6. Crafting selves on death row / Tamara Kohn -- 7. Sojourn, transformative : emotion and identity in the dying, death, and disposal of an ex-spouse / Jacque Lynn Foltyn -- 8. Seeing differently : place, art, and consolation / Christina Marsden Gillis -- 9. 'Sacramentaliy' and identity transformation : deathbed rituals in Dutch spiritual care / Thomas Quartier -- 10. Every funeral unique in (y)our way! : professionals propagating cremation rituals / Meike Heessels -- 11. Designing a place for goodbye : the architecture of crematoria in the Netherlands / Mirjam Klaassens and Peter Groote -- 12. New identity of All Souls' Day celebrations in the Netherlands : extra-ecclesiastic commemoration of the dead, art, and religiosity / Eric Venbrux -- 13. A dream of immortality : Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (the song of the earth) / Kyun-Ah Kim -- 14. De morte transire ad vitam? : emotion and identity in nineteenth-century requiem compositions / Wolfgang Marx -- 15. War without death : America's ingenious plan to defeat enemies without bloodshed / John Troyer.