pt. I. Social characteristics and attitudes to death. Death, denial and diversity ; When and how people die ; Life and death in 'risk society' ; Death, religion and spirituality ; Death and the media
pt. II. Social structures and individual experiences of dying. Dying : institutionalization and medicalization ; The good death ; The social organization of sudden death ; The dying and the dead body
pt. III. Post-death rituals of remembrance and survival beliefs. Grief and loss ; Relationships between the living and the dead ; Mortuary rituals
Conclusion: Resurrecting death?
