A matter of life and death : 60 voices share their wisdom /

This book brings together contributors from different backgrounds including a Holocaust survivor and a death row inmate, to explore perspectives on death. Each contributor offers commentary on a written or visual work that best expresses death to them. A meaningful volume for the bereaved and those...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bradley, Rosalind (Editor ), Tutu, Desmond (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016.
Temas:
Death.
Mort.
deaths.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Death
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Matter of Life and Death: 60 Voices Share Their Wisdom by Rosalind Bradley; Foreword; Copyright Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1
  • Personal Encounters with Death; Gail O'Brien, Non-Executive Director, Chris O'Brien Lifehouse; physiotherapist, Australia; Brigadier Michael Griffiths CBE, Retired army officer, Duke of Lancaster's Regiment; police officer, UK; Olga Horak OAM, Holocaust survivor; volunteer Survivor Guide, Sydney Jewish Museum, Australia; Colleen Kelly, Co-founder, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, USA.
  • Professor Patrick McGorry AO, Professor of Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne Australian of the Year 2010, Australia; The Burton-Gaudiosi Family ; Bella Gaudiosi
  • Both parents died when she was 12 years old; now 'adopted' into the Burton family; Tamika Burton
  • Her father died when she was ten years old; Amit Dasgupta, Former diplomat; author and photographer, India; Erica Stewart, Bereavement Support Services Manager, Sands (Stillbirth and neonatal death charity), UK; Kinny Gardner, Director, Krazy Kat Theatre Company, UK; Pam Masini, Tertiary in the Third Order of Franciscans.
  • Bereavement Support Worker, Child Bereavement UK textile artist, UK; Reverend Peter Pereira, Uniting Church minister and counsellor, Australia; Mitchell Willoughby, Death row inmate, USA; Further Verses; Part 2
  • Death Brings Us Wisdom; Josefine Speyer, Psychotherapist; death education specialist; Co-founder, Natural Death Centre, UK; Jennifer Briscoe-Hough, Community project innovator; community funeral celebrant, Australia; Reverend Canon Rosie Harper, Vicar of Great Missenden; Chaplain to the Bishop of Buckingham; General Synod member, UK; Molly Carlile AM, Deathtalker®
  • Palliative care activist, AustraliaDr Michael Barbato OAM, Former palliative care physician; leader of courses on death midwifery, Australia; Professor Allan Kellehear, Author; medical and public health sociologist; Professor of End of Life Care, University of Bradford, UK; Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Rabbi of the New North London Synagogue; Senior Rabbi, Masorti Judaism, UK; Laurence Freeman OSB, Benedictine monk; Director, World Community for Christian Meditation, UK; Carol Komaromy, Senior Lecturer in Health Studies and honorary Research Associate, Open University, UK.
  • Dom Christian de Chergé OCSO, French Trappist monk, murdered in Algeria in 1996Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibet Buddhist teacher and author; Spiritual Director of Rigpa, France/Tibet; Therese Schroeder-Sheker, International concert and recording artist; clinician and educator; Academic Dean of the Chalice of Repose Project, School of Music-Thanatology, USA; Further Verses; Part 3
  • Working Closely with Death; Deborah de Wilde OAM, Obstetric social worker and former midwife, Australia; Diane Roche, Intensive Care Unit Chaplain, Royal North Shore Hospital, Australia.

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