1. How the dead survive : ancestors, immortality, memory / Tony Walter -- 2. The future of death and the four pathways to immortality / Guy Brown -- 3. Individualised immortality in liquid-modern times : teasing out the topic of symbolic immortality in the sociology of Zygmunt B…
Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: towards a postmortal society : paving the pathway for a sociology of immortality / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- How the dead survive - ancestors, immortality, memory / Tony Walter -- The future of death and the four pathways to immortal…
"Three-quarters of deaths in the U.S. today occur to people over the age of 65, following chronic illness. This new experience of 'predictable death' has important consequences for the ways in which societies structure their health care systems, laws, and labor markets. Dying in…
"Three-quarters of deaths in the U.S. today occur to people over the age of 65, following chronic illness. This new experience of 'predictable death' has important consequences for the ways in which societies structure their health care systems, laws, and labor markets. Dying in…
Dying in old age: U.S. practice and policy
"Three-quarters of deaths in the U.S. today occur to people over the age of 65, following chronic illness. This new experience of 'predictable death' has important consequences for the ways in which societies structure their health care systems, laws, and labor markets. Dying in…
Dying in old age: U.S. practice and policy
Three-quarters of deaths in the U.S. today occur to people over the age of 65, following chronic illness. This new experience of "predictable death" has important consequences for the ways in which societies structure their health care systems, laws, and labor markets. Dying in …
