Voices of death
Shneidman, Edwin S
Voices of death - 1st ed - New York Harper and Row c1980 - xii, 206p.; bibliog. notes; index
1 The rutters of death. Part 1 - Self-destruction. 2 Return from death: reflections of fortuitous survivors. 3 Self-destruction: suicide notes and tragic lives. Part 2 - Enemies, without and within. 4 Execution: Letters of enforced death. 5 Malignancy: Dialogues with life-threatening illnesses. Part 3 - Mourning. 6 Self-mourning and premourning: preparations before the act. 7 Mourning: voices of the bereaved. Part 4 - Concluding thoughts. 8 Toward a better death
'...composed of personal documents--letters, diaries, journals, confessions, reminiscences, interviews, and suicide notes--written or recorded by people threatened by death. Searing, often beautiful, accounts of the human spirit in heroism and despair, each in its own way is a rutter for the passage we must all make. Interwoven with the personal documents are Dr. Shneidman's own humane and searching comments and suggestions.'
Hardcover
0060140232
79002636
Death
Suicide
Sick--Psychology
BD444 .S48 1980
Voices of death - 1st ed - New York Harper and Row c1980 - xii, 206p.; bibliog. notes; index
1 The rutters of death. Part 1 - Self-destruction. 2 Return from death: reflections of fortuitous survivors. 3 Self-destruction: suicide notes and tragic lives. Part 2 - Enemies, without and within. 4 Execution: Letters of enforced death. 5 Malignancy: Dialogues with life-threatening illnesses. Part 3 - Mourning. 6 Self-mourning and premourning: preparations before the act. 7 Mourning: voices of the bereaved. Part 4 - Concluding thoughts. 8 Toward a better death
'...composed of personal documents--letters, diaries, journals, confessions, reminiscences, interviews, and suicide notes--written or recorded by people threatened by death. Searing, often beautiful, accounts of the human spirit in heroism and despair, each in its own way is a rutter for the passage we must all make. Interwoven with the personal documents are Dr. Shneidman's own humane and searching comments and suggestions.'
Hardcover
0060140232
79002636
Death
Suicide
Sick--Psychology
BD444 .S48 1980