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Dying alone : challenging assumptions
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- Creator
- Glenys Caswell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9783030927585, 9783030927578, 9783030927592, 9783030927608
- OCLC
- on1311341721
- Includes index.
- Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- The Covid-19 Pandemic -- No One Should Die Alone -- The Background -- Outline of the Book -- References -- 2: How Can We Know and Think About Dying Alone? -- The Empirical Work -- Methodology -- Study 1: Exploring Perspectives on Dying Alone: A Pilot Study of Sociological Autopsy as Research Methodology -- Overview of Phase 1 Findings -- Sociological Autopsy -- Overview of Phase 2 Findings -- Focus Group and Interviews with Hospice at Home Workers -- Interviews with Older People Living Alone -- Research Study 2: Exploring the Social Management of Lone Deaths -- Research Methods -- Case Studies -- Interviews and Observations -- Overview of Findings -- Case Studies -- Professional Interviews -- Observations -- Research Study 3: Exploring Social Understandings of Time of Death -- Methods and Recruitment -- Overview of Findings -- Ethics and Researching Dying and Death -- Theoretical Background -- Reflexive Individuality -- Expert Systems -- Going It Alone? -- Self-styled Life -- Self-styled Death -- Using Theory Throughout the Book -- References -- 3: Dying in the United Kingdom: Context -- Introduction -- Dying in the United Kingdom -- Expert Systems -- Expert Systems: Dying -- The Covid-19 Pandemic -- Expert Systems: Post-death -- Regulatory Systems -- Office of Coroner -- Local Authorities' Role -- Post-death Care -- Funeral Directors -- Funeral Officiants -- A Good Death, or Dying Well -- A Bad Death -- A Death Suited to the Individual -- References -- 4: How Do People Know That They Should Not Die Alone? -- Introduction -- Outline of Chapter -- Cultural Scripts -- Socialisation -- Cultural Representations -- The Deathbed Scene -- Media Representations -- Documentaries -- Images of Dying -- Novels -- Modern Fiction
- Presenting a More Nuanced Picture -- How Do People Know That Dying Alone Is Bad? -- References -- 5: What Does It Mean to Die Alone? -- Introduction -- Public and Private Spaces of Dying -- Biological Death and Social Death -- Choosing to Die Alone -- Lonely Dying -- Time at the End of Life -- Time of Death -- Timescapes of Dying Alone -- Formulations of Dying Alone -- Summary -- References -- 6: Dying Alone in Public Spaces -- Introduction -- Dying Alone in Public Spaces -- Homelessness -- The Death of Peter Harrison -- The Deaths of Homeless People During the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Dying Alone in Quasi-public Spaces: Institutional Dying Alone -- Hospitals -- Care and Nursing Homes -- Dying Alone with Covid-19 -- Timescapes of Institutional Dying Alone -- Summary -- References -- 7: Dying Alone in Private Spaces -- Introduction -- Outline of Chapter -- Private Space of Home -- Living Alone -- Loneliness -- Private Experience of Dying -- Dying at Home: Numbers -- Three Formulations of Dying Alone -- Being Alone at Time of Decease -- Empirical Work -- Timescape of Sam's Death -- Dying Alone at Home -- Literature-Based Evidence -- Empirical Work -- Timescape of Anthony Madeley's Death -- Older People Living Alone -- Lone Death -- Empirical Work -- Megan Bloom -- The Social Dying of Megan Bloom -- Timescape of Megan Bloom's Death -- Lonely Dying -- Dying Alone in Private Space During Covid-19 Pandemic -- Summary -- References -- 8: What Is Wrong with Dying Alone? -- Introduction -- Reflexive Individual: Planning for One's Own Dying -- Social Constructs Revisited -- Public and Private -- Social and Biological Death -- Timescapes of Dying Alone -- Choosing to Die Alone -- Lonely Dying -- Three Formulations of Dying Alone -- Alone at Time of Decease -- Dying Alone at Home -- Lone Dying -- What Is Wrong with Dying Alone?
- Time Frame During Which the Dead Body Is Undiscovered -- In the Interests of the Dying Person or the Survivors? -- Impact of Personal/Social Failings -- Lack of Clarity About What It Means to Die Alone -- Conclusion -- References -- Index