Seeking Wisdom in Death's Shadows

Thomas Attig holds BA and PhD degrees from Northwestern University and Washington University in St. Louis. At Bowling Green State University, while Chair, he and his colleagues established the world's first PhD Program in Applied Philosophy. A Fellow of the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement, he has received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Death Education from the International Network on Personal Meaning, Death Educator and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Association for Death Education and Counseling, and the Robert Fulton Founder's Award from the Center for Death Education and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

• Preface Part I: My Search for Wisdom Begins Chapter 1: Introduction: Searching for Wisdom about Death and Dying Chapter 2: Grief and Personal IntegrityChapter 3: Relearning the World: On the Phenomenology of GrievingChapter 4: The Importance of Conceiving of Grieving as an Active ProcessChapter 5: Coping with Mortality: An Essay on Self-Mourning Part II: Contemporary Discussions Chapter 6: Relearning the World: Making and Finding MeaningsChapter 7: Relearning the World: Always Complicated, Sometimes More Than Others Chapter 8: Questionable Assumptions about Assumptive WorldsChapter 9: Anticipating the Transition to Loving in AbsenceChapter 10: Disenfranchised Grief Revisited: Discounting Hope and Love Part III: Aspects of Self and Grieving Chapter 11: Spirituality in Self and GrievingChapter 12: Existential Suffering: Anguish Over Our Human Condition Chapter 13: Beyond Pain: The Existential Suffering of ChildrenChapter 14: Brokenness and ResilienceChapter 15: Hope in Mortality, Dying, and Grief Part IV: Caregiving in Death's Shadows Chapter 16: Perspectives on the Ethics of Caring for the Dying and the BereavedChapter 17: Rational Suicide in Terminal Illness: The Ethics of Intervention and AssistanceChapter 18: Is Evidence-Based Practice an Appropriate Model for Grief Counseling?Chapter 19: Self-Care through Sorrow-Friendly PracticesChapter 20: Wisdom-Based Grief Counseling Part V: Harvesting Wisdom Chapter 21: A Dozen Good Things about GrievingChapter 22: Meanings of Death Seen through the Lens of GrievingChapter 23: My Years of Living Mortally AcknowledgementsPermissionsIndex

...I would recommend this collection to students, clinicians, teachers, researchers, thoughtful readers, and anyone seeking to engage more deeply with life or who finds themselves wrestling with existential questions and forms of human suffering.