TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kastenbaum,Robert
TI  - On our way: the final passage through life and death 
T2  - Life passages
SN  - 9780520922938
AV  - BF789.D4 K365 2004eb
U1  - 306.9 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Berkeley, Calif.
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Death
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Future life
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Death & Dying
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
KW  - Death, Grief, Bereavement
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - fast
KW  - Dood
KW  - gtt
KW  - Psychologische aspecten
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-439) and index; List of illustrations --; 1; Here we are --; 2; Practicing death : some rituals of everyday life --; 3; Good death, bad death (I) : in other times and places --; 4; Good death, bad death (II) : here and now --; 5; Corpsed persons --; 6; Abusing and eating the dead --; 7; Too many dead : the plague and other mass deaths --; 8; Down to earth and up in flames --; 9; Journey of the dead --; 10; Living through --; Notes --; Sources cited --; Index
N2  - Publisher's description: How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country--and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of the inevitable end. In this book a preeminent and eminently wise writer on death and dying proposes a new way of understanding our last transition. A fresh exploration of the final passage through life and perhaps through death, his work deftly interweaves historical and contemporary experiences and reflections to demonstrate that we are always on our way. Drawing on a remarkable range of observations--from psychology, anthropology, religion, biology, and personal experience--Robert Kastenbaum re-envisions life's forward-looking progress, from early-childhood bedtime rituals to the many small rehearsals we stage for our final separation. Along the way he illuminates such moments and ideas as becoming a "corpsed person," going down to earth or up in flames, respecting or abusing (and eating) the dead, coping with "too many dead," conceiving and achieving a "good death," undertaking the journey of the dead, and learning to live through the scrimmage of daily life fully knowing that Eternity does not really come in a designer flask. Profound, insightful, often moving, this look at death as many cultures await it or approach it enriches our understanding of life as a never-ending passage
UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppz53
ER  -