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1 online resource (234 pages) |
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Print version record. |
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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 working in bereavement or spirituality. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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® |
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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. |
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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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Death.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Death. (OCoLC)fst00888613
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Bradley, Rosalind, editor.
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Tutu, Desmond, writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Matter of life and death (Jessica Kingsley Publishers). Matter of life and death. London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016 9781849056014 (DLC) 2016003170 (OCoLC)944179725 |
| ISBN |
9781784502836 (electronic bk.) |
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1784502839 (electronic bk.) |
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9781849056014 |
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1849056013 |
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