Speaking of death :

Foreword / by Robert Belknap -- Preface: Facing our mortality -- Introduction: The age of encounter : the new reality -- Part I: Manifestations of mortality awareness -- From concealment to recognition : the discourse on death, dying, and grief / Christina Staudt -- Cancer patients facing death : is the patient who focuses on living in denial of his/her death? / Sherry R. Schachter -- The afterlife in modern America / Alan F. Segal -- Life extension : proponents, opponents, and the social impact of the defeat of death / Kevin T. Keith -- Covering (up?) death : a close reading of Time magazine's September 11, 2001, special issue / Christina Staudt -- Part II: From awareness to acceptance -- Acceptance of mortality : what is confirmed, what is denied / Michael K. Bartalos -- Death, terror, culture, and violence : a psychoanalytic perspective / Jerry S. Piven -- When the time is ripe for acceptance : dying, with a small "d" / Thomas A. Caffrey -- Alive and content : the art of living with mortality awareness / Michael K. Bartalos -- Part III: Societal aspects of the acceptance of dying -- Coping with mortality : a societal perspective / Michael K. Bartalos -- The quest for permanence : scientific visions of surviving the eventual demise of our universe / Michael K. Bartalos.