Table of Contents

Introduction; A Revival of Death?: Death, Dying & Bereavement in Contemporary Society; Death & Dying in the Nordic Countries: Three Personal Images; Educated to Death: The Disciplinary & National Development of Death Education: Danish & American Examples, Experiences & Perspectives; Messages from the Otherworld: The Roles of the Dead in Medieval Iceland; Over the Limit: Religious Culture as a Hidden Factor in Negative Decisions on Organ Donation in the Protestant Nordic Countries; Memorialisation: Materialising & Locating Grief & Loss, Anna Petersson; An Existence after Death: Conceptions of Faith as Expressed on Memorial Internet Websites in Norway & Sweden; Lighting Candles as Ritualization of Death, Olaf Aagedal, Chapter 9: Rituals of Death in a Norwegian School Context; Controlling Dying: Physicians Narrating End-of-Life Issues; Inter-Professional Palliative Care: Developing & Outlining Syllabi & Curricula in Educational Programmes in Palliative Care in Denmark; Dying Behind the Scenes of Society: Palliative Care in Alternative Nursing Homes for Socially Vulnerable People; "All the Lonely People": Living & Dying Alone in the Shadow of the Danish Welfare State.

About the Author

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Asscoiate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Organisation, University of Aalborg, Denmark.