Grief, Mourning, and Death Ritual

Download or read book Grief, Mourning, and Death Ritual written by Jennifer Lorna Hockey and published by Facing Death. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It does this by combining substantial reviews with shorter illustrative examples of grief, mourning and death ritual as they are manifest in specific settings and with defined groups. These illustrative examples include personal and institutional responses to death at different points in the life cycle, and responses to different sorts of death - the death of children and death in disasters for example.