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‘There is nothing beautiful or life-affirming in it’: experiences of harm in a narrative course combining rehabilitative and palliative care approaches for people who have or have had cancer
Henriette Søby Gärtner, Bodil H. Blix, Mette Raunkiær & Helle Timm
Published online: 06 Jun 2024
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The poetics of mourning or loss: a study in Angeliki Sidira’s poetry
Dimos Chloptsioudis & Triantafyllos H. Kotopoulos
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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A preliminary examination of the associations between belief in God and in afterlife, death anxiety, and COVID-19 protective behaviours within a non-representative Polish community sample
Dariusz Drążkowski & Radosław Trepanowski
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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COVID-19 corpse management in Nepal: handling the deceased at Pashupati electric crematorium during the COVID-19 pandemic
Hans Hadders
Published online: 26 May 2024
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Wishes for a good death in context of the COVID-19 pandemic - perspective of older individuals living in Finland
Tiina Järviö, Lily Nosraty & Anna Liisa Aho
Published online: 26 May 2024
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How do we talk about grief? Leeds International Festival of Ideas 2023
Georgina M. Robinson
Published online: 16 May 2024
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Grave history: death, race and gender in Southern cemeteries
edited by Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle, Athens, GA, University of Athens Press, 2023, 299 pp., $114.95 (hb), $32.95 (pb), ISBN 9-780-8203-6579-4 (hb), ISBN 978-0-8203-6580-0 (pb)
Julie Rugg
Published online: 15 May 2024
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The unclaimed: abandonment and hope in the City of Angels
by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans, New York, Crown, 2024, 311 pp., $30.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9780593239056
William McGowan
Published online: 15 May 2024
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Rebellious mourning: the collective work of grief,
edited by Cindy Milstein, Chico, California, AK Press, 2017, 412 pp., $19.95/£16.00 (paperback), ISBN-13: 9781849352840
Lesley Niezynski
Published online: 15 May 2024
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The song of the whole wide world: on grief, motherhood and poetry
by Tamarin Norwood, Great Britain, The Indigo Press, 2024, 142 pp., price not listed (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-9116-4874-1
Světlana Nedvědová
Published online: 15 May 2024
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A narrative systematic review into the literature on memorial tattoos
Bee Swann-Thomas, Alison Owen & Emily Buckley
Published online: 28 Apr 2024
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To live and die in an age of extinction: a conversation with Juno Salazar Parreñas
Marie-Thérèse Talensby & Juno Salazar Parreñas
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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Paying to pollute? The calculation of environmental indicators in crematorium burden sharing schemes
Daniel Robins
Published online: 18 Apr 2024
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Visual memories of living loved ones during life-threatening incidents
Robert A. King
Published online: 18 Apr 2024
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Death and burial in late medieval women’s houses
Miriam Wendling
Published online: 16 Apr 2024
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Alkaline hydrolysis and respect for the dead: an ethical critique
Geoffrey Scarre
Published online: 10 Apr 2024
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The Ontology of Death: the philosophy of the death penalty in literature, by Aaron Aquilina
C. R. F. Irvine
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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Disparities in public awareness, practitioner availability, and institutional support contribute to differential rates of MAiD utilization: a natural experiment comparing California and Canada
Adrian C. Byram & Peter B. Reiner
Published online: 14 Mar 2024
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Building the city of the dead: Bath and burial reforms, 1820–1860
Tristan Portier
Published online: 08 Mar 2024
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“What’s said and done in the mortuary stays in the mortuary”: secrecy and (in)visibility of the dead and data collection in South Australia
Annamaria Fratini, Susan R. Hemer & Anna Chur-Hansen
Published online: 22 Feb 2024
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‘Now I’m a weird mother who doesn’t care’: Women’s experiences of pregnancy remains disposal following miscarriage in England
Susie Kilshaw
Published online: 20 Feb 2024
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‘I wasn’t me, grieving in my room. I was Spiderman’: gaming, loss and self-care following COVID-19
Matthew Spokes, Jack Denham, Matt Coward-Gibbs & Caitlin Veal
Published online: 13 Feb 2024
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Worker experiences of the work health and safety impacts of exposure to dying and death in non-clinical settings: a qualitative scoping review
Natalie Roche, Susan Darzins, Jodi Oakman & Rwth Stuckey
Published online: 13 Feb 2024
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Going for gold: exploring the making of the arts-based health research artefact Golden Years, a short story and one-act play about ageing and mortality
Lisa Williams, Tess Moeke-Maxwell & Merryn Gott
Published online: 06 Feb 2024
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The big, bad… grim: personification of death in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Marissa Lammon
Published online: 25 Jan 2024
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Death anxiety and materialism during the pandemic: investigating the role of personal experiences of COVID-19
Agata Trzcińska & Katarzyna Sekścińska
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Support in bereavement processes in cases of suicide or substance-related death in childhood: a systematic review
Monika Alvestad Reime, Tine K. Grimholt, Siri Kjoelaas, Nina Bringedal & Ingrid Johnsen Hogstad
Published online: 12 Jan 2024
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Death enchanted: comparing conventional and conservation burial in the United States with a technological mediation lens
Sebastian Levar Spivey
Published online: 09 Jan 2024
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Can death be casual: the paradox in Death Café blogs
Anuja Jose, Shweta Singh & Vinita Chandra
Published online: 12 Nov 2023
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Respect, agency, and posthumous wishes
Rob Hanson
Published online: 03 Nov 2023
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Caring for the dead at home: an exploratory study of home deathcare in England
Samantha Hooker & Kate Woodthorpe
Published online: 03 Nov 2023
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The communicative functions of epitaphs in the linguistic landscape of Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery), Philippines
Nicko Enrique L. Manalastas
Published online: 23 Oct 2023
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Exploited in immortality: techno-capitalism and immortality imaginaries in the twenty-first century
Joshua Hurtado Hurtado
Published online: 09 Oct 2023
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An analysis of student bucket lists in death and dying courses: data from three U.S. Universities
Lacey J. Ritter, Anisah Bagasra & Sharon Richards
Published online: 28 Sep 2023
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Life stories interrupted: an exploration of United States obituaries during the COVID-19 pandemic
Anna F. Carmon & Matthew C. Rothrock
Published online: 26 Sep 2023
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Refused gifts: understanding the over and above work of Medical School Anatomy Unit staff when donor bodies cannot be accepted
Z. N. Murphy, J. Cooper, P. J. Bazira, T. Green & J. Seymour
Published online: 21 Sep 2023
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Family narratives of loss and grief during the COVID-19 pandemic in Botswana
Marang K. Phuthegelo & Gabriel Faimau
Published online: 22 Aug 2023
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One-way ticket to Zürich: presentations of ‘Suicide tourism’ in European news media
Kalima Carrigan
Published online: 13 Aug 2023
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Journey to Switzerland as a state of exception: a ‘homo sacer’ Italian experience
Ines Testoni & Leonardo Arnau
Published online: 27 Jul 2023
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Role of mindfulness meditation as moderating variable in reducing death anxiety
Gagan Jain
Published online: 25 Jul 2023
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“A harrowing and laborious occupation”: preservation in the 1904 General Slocum disaster identifications
Vicki Daniel
Published online: 23 Jul 2023
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The Tomb and the Abandonment of the Tomb. An analysis of the traditional tombs of the Jarai ethnic group (Central Highlands of Vietnam)
Vincenzo Della Ratta
Published online: 07 Jul 2023
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Green burial conundrum: constructing the intersection between stakeholder perceptions and sustainable land use in a multi-cultural society
Asphat Muposhi, Fainos Chokera & Edward Mudzimba
Published online: 03 Jul 2023
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Cryopreservation and the death of legal personhood
Kate Falconer
Published online: 03 Jul 2023
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Why does funeral attendance matter? Revisiting ‘configurational eulogies’ in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK
Jennifer Riley, Vikki Entwistle, Arnar Arnason, Louise Locock, Rebecca Crozier, Paolo Maccagno & Abi Pattenden
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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Dying with shame: a qualitative study of stigma experienced by terminal stage male breast cancer patients and family members in India
Souvik Mondal
Published online: 11 Jun 2023
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An internet-based photography therapy intervention into the grief of persons who have lost a loved one
Niina Keskinen, Saija Helmi, Marja Kaunonen, Heini Huhtala & Anna Liisa Aho
Published online: 08 May 2023
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A cross-sectional study of suicidal ideation and behaviour, depression, anxiety and stress in a Spanish sample. Mental health in young people after the Covid-19 pandemic
Eva Sanchez Merino, Carmela Martínez Vispo & Clara González Sanguino
Published online: 03 May 2023
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From growth to silence: expressive endeavours at the end of life
Gaudenz Urs Metzger
Published online: 02 May 2023
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Moral locus of control in hastened death when faced with irremediable health conditions
Robert R. Blake
Published online: 24 Apr 2023
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