LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
SHELLEY R. ADLER
Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome
ASIF AGHA
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Tibetan Book of the Dead
ALLAN ANDERSON
Graduate Institute for Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
African Religions
JAMES AUSTIN
George Washington University
Capital Punishment
JEFFREY P. BAKER
Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Duke University
Bioethics
CHRIS BALE
Befrienders International, London
Befriending
MICHEL RENE BARNES
Augustine
Catholicism
JULIA BARTEL
Hospice of the Western Reserve
Symptoms and Symptom Management
KIMBERLY A. BEACH
Benedictine University
Assassination
Children, Murder of
NANCY L. BECKERMAN
Informed Consent
JOAN BEDER
Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University
Animal Companions
Grief: Anticipatory
ROBERT A. BENDIKSEN
Center for Death Education and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Technology and Death
PETER BERTA
Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Afterlife in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Anthropological Perspective Omens
SANDRA L. BERTMAN
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Visual Arts
RUSSELL L. BLAYLOCK
Advanced Nutrition Concepts, Jackson, MS
Nutrition and Exercise
RICHARD BONNEY
Centre for the History of Religious and Political Pluralism, University of Leicester
Buddhism
Jainism
Sikhism
Taylor, Jeremy
JEAN-YVES BOUCHER
Center for Research and Intervention on Suicide and Euthanasia, University of Quebec, Montreal
Camus, Albert
Charon and the River Styx
Hindenburg
Lazarus
Phoenix, The
GLENNA BRADSHAW
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Children and Their Rights in Life and Death Situations
JAMES BRANDMAN
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Northwestern University Medical School
Cancer
DANA G. CABLE
Hood College
Internet
Support Groups
SILVIA SARA CANETTO
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Suicide Influences and Factors: Gender
MARTIN CARVER
University of York
Sutton Hoo
MICHAEL S. CASERTA
Gerontology Center, University of Utah
Widowers
JOHN P. CHARLOT
Department of Religion, University of Hawai'i
Polynesian Religions
JAMES C. CHATTERS
Foster Wheeler Environmental, Inc., Seattle, WA
Kennewick Man
KEITH CHENG
Oregon Health and Science University
Suicide Influences and Factors: Rock Music
SANDRA BURKHALTER CHMELIR
Benedictine University
Mass Killers
Serial Killers
DAVID CLARK
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Brompton's Cocktail
Hospice in Historical Perspective
Saunders, Cicely
MICHAEL S. CLARK
Argosy University
Missing in Action
ARYEH COHEN
University of Judaism
Judaism
WILLIAM COONEY
Briar Cliff University
Epicurus
Heidegger, Martin
Mind-Body Problem
Philosophy, Western
Plato
Plotinus
INGE B. CORLESS
MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA
Hospice around the World
CHARLES A. CORR
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Children
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
Organ Donation and Transplantation
Stage Theory
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
DONNA M. CORR
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Children
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
Organ Donation and Transplantation
Stage Theory
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
GERRY R. COX
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Technology and Death
JAMES K. CRISSMAN
Benedictine University
Assassination
Children, Murder of
Epitaphs
Exhumation
Folk Music Homicide, Definitions and Classifications of
Homicide, Epidemiology of
Mass Killers
Notifications of Death
Spiritualism Movement
MARY A. CRISSMAN
Little Friends, Inc., Naperville, IL
Notifications of Death
MARC S. DAIGLE
University of Quebec
Suicide Types: Murder-Suicide
DAVID S. DANAHER
Department of Slavic Languages, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ivan Ilych
GLEN W. DAVIDSON
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Human Remains
DOUGLAS J. DAVIES
University of Durham, England
Cremation
Gennep, Arnold van
Hertz, Robert
Jesus
Rites of Passage
DIEGO DE LEO
Australian Institute for Suicide Research, Griffith University, Mt. Gravatt, Queensland
Suicide over the Life Span: The Elderly
JOHN DEFRAIN
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Abortion
Miscarriage
TOM D. DILLEHAY
Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington
Incan Religion
KENNETH J. DOKA
Department of Gerontology, The College of New Rochelle and Hospice Foundation of America
Death System
Grief: Acute
Grief: Disenfranchised
Grief: Gender
DONALD F. DUCLOW
Gwynedd-Mercy College
Ars Moriendi
Memento Mori
Virgin Mary, The
JERRY D. DURHAM
University of Missouri, St. Louis
AIDS
JAMES W. ELLOR
National-Louis University
Frankl, Viktor
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Thou Shalt Not Kill
RICHARD K. EMMERSON
Medieval Academy of America, Cambridge, MA
Apocalypse
NORMAN L. FARBEROW
University of Southern California
Grief: Suicide
Suicide Basics: History
HERMAN FEIFEL
University of Southern California School of Medicine
Psychology
STEPHEN C. FEINSTEIN
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Genocide
BETTY R. FERRELL
City of Hope National Medical Center
Nursing Education
KATHLEEN GALLAGHER
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
Theater and Drama
GENEVIÈVE GARNEAU
Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide and Euthanasia, University of Quebec, Montreal
Voodoo
Zombies
ELLEN M. GEE
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
Causes of Death
Demographics and Statistics
Gender and Death
Life Expectancy
Malthus, Thomas
Mortality, Childbirth
Mortality, Infant
Population Growth
SHMUEL GLICK
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, NY and Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
Kaddish
OGDEN GOELET JR.
Department of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Pyramids
LAURENCE R. GOLDMAN
University of Queensland
Cannibalism
ROBERT D. GOLDNEY
The Adelaide Clinic, Gilberton, South Australia
Suicide Influences and Factors: Biology and Genetics
ROGER GRAINGER
Greenwich School of Theology, United Kingdom and Potchefstroom University, South Africa
Wake
LESLIE A. GROUT
Hudson Valley Community College
Replacement Children
HAMZA YUSUF HANSON
Zaytuna Institute, Hayward, CA
Islam
DESLEY HARVEY
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia
Suicide Influences and Factors: Indigenous Populations
NARELLE L. HAWORTH
Monash University, Australia
Injury Mortality
Safety Regulations
BERT HAYSLIP JR.
University of North Texas
Communication with the Dying
PAMELA S. HINDS
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Children and Their Rights in Life and Death Situations
CHARLES A. HITE
Biomedical Ethics, Carilion Health System, Roanoke, VA
Do Not Resuscitate
VALERIE M. HOPE
Department of Classical Studies, Open University, United Kingdom
Tombs
SARAH J. HORTON
Macalester College
Shinto
JANIE HOULE
Center for Research and Intervention on Suicide and Euthanasia, University of Quebec, Montreal
Suicide Types: Suicide Pacts
DONNA E. HOWARD
Department of Public and Community Health, University of Maryland, College Park
Hunger Strikes
ERNEST HUNTER
Suicide Influences and Factors: Indigenous Populations
ANN C. HURLEY
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Hospice, Alzheimer Patients and
JAMES F. IACCINO
Benedictine University
Horror Movies
KENNETH V. ISERSON
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Autopsy
Death Certificate
Life Support System
Persistent Vegetative State
Resuscitation
Rigor Mortis and Other Postmortem Changes
CHRISTIAN JOCHIM
Comparative Religious Studies, San Jose State University
Chinese Beliefs
ARUN KALYANASUNDARAM
University of Maryland, College Park
Hunger Strikes
BEATRICE KASTENBAUM
College of Nursing, Arizona State University
Hospice Option
Pain and Pain Management
ROBERT KASTENBAUM
Arizona State University
Anxiety and Fear
Black Death
Children and Adolescents' Understanding of Death
Communication with the Dead
Cryonic Suspension
Danse Macabre
Death Instinct
Definitions of Death
Dying, Process of
Freud, Sigmund
Ghosts
Good Death, The
Grief: Overview
Immortality
Kevorkian, Jack
Last Words
Moment of Death
Mummification
Sacrifice
Saints, Preserved
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Seven Deadly Sins
Socrates
Suicide Types: Physician-Assisted Suicide
Terrorist Attacks on America
Thanatology
Thanatomimesis
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
Vampires
JEFFREY KAUFFMAN
Bryn Mawr College
Kierkegaard, Søren
WILLIAM KAUFMAN
Titanic
MICHAEL C. KEARL
Trinity University
Celebrity Deaths
Cemeteries, Military
Elvis Sightings
Extinction
Immortality, Symbolic
Metaphors and Euphemisms
Nuclear Destruction
Sex and Death, Connection of
Social Functions of Death
Thrill-Seeking
War
ALLAN KELLEHEAR
Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia
How Death Came into the World
Near-Death Experiences
DENNIS KLASS
Webster University
Grief and Mourning in Cross-Cultural Perspective
TERRY F. KLEEMAN
University of Colorado, Boulder
Taoism
KENNETH P. KRAMER
San Jose State University
Hinduism
GARY M. LADERMAN
Emory University
Brown, John
Civil War, U.S.
Funeral Industry
Washington, George
KENNETH LAFAVE
Music and Dance Critic, Arizona Republic
Mahler, Gustav
Music, Classical
Operatic Death
ELIZABETH P. LAMERS
The Lamers Medical Group, Malibu, CA
Literature for Children
WILLIAM M. LAMERS JR.
Hospice Foundation of America
Cruzan, Nancy
Forensic Medicine
Hippocratic Oath
Quinlan, Karen Ann
Sin Eater
JOHN M. LAST
Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa
Public Health
VICKI LENS
Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University
Advance Directives
End-of-Life Issues
Living Will
Natural Death Acts
DAVID LESTER
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Suicide Types: Theories of Suicide
MARCIA LEVETOWN
Pain and Palliative Care Educator, Houston, TX
Children, Caring for When Life-Threatened or Dying
DANIEL LEVITON
University of Maryland, College Park
Death Squads
Famine
JONATHAN F. LEWIS
Benedictine University
Cadaver Experiences
Durkheim, Émile
Revolutionaries and "Death for the Cause!"
Terrorism
HELENA ZNANIECKA LOPATA
Loyola University, Chicago
Widows
RICHARD S. MACHALEK
Department of Sociology, University of Wyoming
Hunting
MUI HING JUNE MAK
Confucius
Qin Shih Huang's Tomb
ISABELLE MARCOUX
Center for Research and Intervention on Suicide and Euthanasia, University of Quebec, Montreal
Death Mask
Necromancy
Orpheus
Osiris
Suicide Types: Suicide Pacts
SAPNA REDDY MAREPALLY
University of Maryland, College Park
Death Squads
ROBERT L. MARRONE
deceased, California State University, Sacramento
Spiritual Crisis
ALFRED R. MARTIN
Benedictine University
Brain Death
Cell Death
Darwin, Charles
Exhumation
NICOLAS S. MARTIN
American Iatrogenic Association, Houston, TX
Iatrogenic Illness
ROBERT MASSON
Marquette University
Rahner, Karl
POLLY MAZANEC
Hospice of the Western Reserve
Symptoms and Symptom Management
MARSHA MCGEE
University of Louisiana, Monroe
Sympathy Cards
JACQUELINE M. MCGRATH
College of Nursing, Arizona State University
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
J. A. MCGUCKIN
Union Theological Seminary
Hell
Purgatory
FARHANG MEHR
Boston University
Zoroastrianism
JASON D. MILLER
University of Arizona
Organized Crime
BRIAN L. MISHARA
Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide and Euthanasia, University of Quebec, Montreal
Autopsy, Psychological
Euthanasia
Firearms
Suicide
Suicide Basics: Prevention
Suicide Basics: Warning Signs and Predictions
Suicide Influences and Factors: Physical Illness
BRIAN L. MISHARA (CONTINUED)
Suicide over the Life Span: Adolescents and Youths
Suicide over the Life Span: Children
Suicide Types: Indirect Suicide
Suicide Types: Rational Suicide
DAVID WENDELL MOLLER
Wishard Health Services, Indiana University
Taboos and Social Stigma
DIANNE R. MORAN
Department of Psychology, Benedictine University
Infanticide
ROBIN D. MOREMEN
Northern Illinois University
Gender Discrimination after Death
BRENDA C. MORRIS
College of Nursing, Arizona State University
Cardiovascular Disease
RICHARD MORRIS
Arizona State University West
Burial Grounds
Gravestones and Other Markers
Lawn Garden Cemeteries
Lincoln in the National Memory
JOHN MORTON
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Australian Aboriginal Religion
MICHAEL NEILL
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Shakespeare, William
PATRICE K. NICHOLAS
MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA
Hospice around the World
KENNETH D. NORDIN
Benedictine University
Ghost Dance
Native American Religion
LINDA L. OAKES
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Children and Their Rights in Life and Death Situations
RANDOLPH OCHSMANN
University of Mainz, Germany
Bonsen, F. Z.
Necrophilia
Ontological Confrontation
MARGARET OWEN
Empowering Widows in Development, Widows for Peace and Reconstruction, and Girton College, United Kingdom
Widows in Third World Nations
JENNIFER PARKIN
Benedictine University
Homicide, Epidemiology of
FREDERICK S. PAXTON
Connecticut College
Ariès, Philippe
Christian Death Rites, History of
Theodosian Code
MARTIN PERNICK
Department of History, University of Michigan
Black Stork
MICHELE PRITCHARD
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Children and Their Rights in Life and Death Situations
LAURA PROUD
Independent Media Consultant
Suicide Influences and Factors: Rock Music
GERALD F. PYLE
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Influenza
THERESE A. RANDO
Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss, Warwick, RI
Bereavement, Vicarious
Mourning
LILLIAN M. RANGE
University of Southern Mississippi
Grief: Traumatic
EVA REIMERS
Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, Sweden
Cemeteries and Cemetery Reform
PAMELA ROBERTS
California State University, Long Beach
Memorialization, Spontaneous
Memorial, Virtual
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
BRONNA D. ROMANOFF
The Sage Colleges
Replacement Children
F. ARTURO ROSALES
Department of History, Arizona State University
Days of the Dead
BRUCE RUMBOLD
Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia
Protestantism
MARK A. RUNCO
University of Hawaii, Hilo and California State University, Fullerton
Sexton, Anne
JEFFREY BURTON RUSSELL
University of California, Santa Barbara
Heaven
BARBARA RYAN
Widener University
Lopata, Helena Z.
DANIELLE SAINT-LAURENT
National Public Health Institute of Quebec
Suicide Basics: Epidemiology
CICELY SAUNDERS
St. Christopher's Hospice, London
Lessons from the Dying
GERHARD SCHMIED
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Cemeteries, War
ANDREW J. SCHOPP
University of Tennessee, Martin
Literature for Adults
HENK SCHUT
Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Grief: Theories
REIKO SCHWAB
Old Dominion University
Grief: Child's Death
Grief: Family
VANDA SCOTT
Varah, Chad
MOSHE SHARON
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bahá'í Faith
G. M. SIFAKIS
Department of Classics, New York University
Greek Tragedy
PHYLLIS R. SILVERMAN
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Continuing Bonds
SAM SILVERMAN
Buried Alive
Catacombs
Charnel Houses
Dead Ghetto
LACEY BALDWIN SMITH
Northwestern University
Martyrs
TRACY L. SMITH
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Emergency Medical Technicians
REINER SÖRRIES
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal (Study Group for Cemeteries and Memorials), Erlangen, Germany
Museums of Death
STEVEN STACK
Center for Suicide Research, Wayne State University
Suicide Influences and Factors: Media Effects
CHERYL B. STEWART
Benedictine University
Cult Deaths
Heaven's Gate
Jonestown
Waco
DENNIS D. STEWART
University of Minnesota, Morris
Cult Deaths
Heaven's Gate
Jonestown
Waco
STEPHEN STRACK
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Los Angeles
Feifel, Herman
Psychology
MARGARET STROEBE
Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Grief: Theories
WOLFGANG STROEBE
Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Grief: Theories
JEREMY SUGARMAN
Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Duke University
Bioethics
MAARE E. TAMM
Department of Health Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, Boden, Sweden
Personifications of Death
KARL A. TAUBE
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
Aztec Religion
Maya Religion
ADRIAN TOMER
Shippensburg University
Becker, Ernest
Life Events
Terror Management Theory
MICHEL TOUSIGNANT
University of Quebec, Montreal
Suicide Influences and Factors: Alcohol and Drug Use
Suicide Influences and Factors: Culture
Suicide Influences and Factors: Mental Illness
JIM B. TUCKER
Department of Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
Reincarnation
LADISLAV VOLICER
Hospice, Alzheimer Patients and
ROGER N. WALSH
University of California, Irvine
Shamanism
JOHNETTA M. WARD
University of Notre Dame
Epitaphs
Organized Crime
Weber, Max
RETHA M. WARNICKE
Arizona State University
Funeral Orations and Sermons
VINCENT WARREN
Bibliothéque de la Danse de L'École supérieure de danse de Québec
Dance
HANNELORE WASS
University of Florida
Children and Media Violence
Death Education
JOHN D. WEAVER
Eye of the Storm, Nazareth, PA
Disasters
GREGORY PAUL WEGNER
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Holocaust
MATT WEINBERG
Clinical Consultation Services, Bryn Mawr, PA
Right-to-Die Movement
CATHERINE WEINBERGER-THOMAS
Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde es de l'Asie du Sud, Paris
Widow-Burning
GREGORY L. WEISS
Roanoke College
Do Not Resuscitate
THOMAS B. WEST
Franciscan School of Theology, University of California, Berkeley
Deathbed Visions and Escorts
Dehumanization
Empathy and Compassion
JENNIFER WESTWOOD
The Folklore Society, London
Gilgamesh
Gods and Goddesses of Life and Death
Kronos
Soul Birds
ALLISON K. WILSON
Benedictine University
Drowning
Exposure to the Elements
SHERYL SCHEIBLE WOLF
School of Law,
University of New Mexico
Wills and Inheritance
BEN WOLFE
St. Mary's/Duluth Clinic Health System's Grief Support Center, Duluth, MN
Grief Counseling and Therapy
JOHN WOLFFE
Royalty, British
TARA S. WOOD
Arizona State University
Funeral Orations and Sermons
FRANK M. YATSU
Houston Medical School, University of Texas
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