TY - BOOK AU - Gilbert,Sandra M. TI - Death's door: modern dying and the ways we grieve SN - 0393051315 AV - HQ1073 .G54 2006 U1 - 155.9/37 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton KW - Death KW - Social aspects KW - Grief KW - Mourning customs N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [525]-553) and index; 1. Arranging my mourning: five meditations on the psychology of grief -- Death opens -- Widow -- Yahrzeit -- E-mail to the dead -- Writing wrong -- 2: History makes death: how the twentieth century reshaped dying and mourning -- Expiration/termination -- Technologies of death -- Technologies of dying -- A day in the death of ... -- Millennial mourning -- 3: The handbook of heartbreak: contemporary elegy and lamentation -- On the beach with Sylvia Plath -- Was the nineteenth century different, and luckier? -- "Rats' alley" and the death of pastoral -- Monsters of elegy -- Apocalypse now (and then) UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0607/2004065430.html ER -