Social Perspectives on Death and Dying (2nd edition): Towards a Theory of Community Economic Development - Softcover

While death is an inevitable happening in all our lives, the perspectives that we hold about death and dying are socially constructed. This text takes us through the maze of issues, both social and personal, which surround death and dying in our country. The author invites us not to just peek at issues of death and dying but to open our eyes wide and examine how Canadian cultures deal with those concepts. In this new updated edition, Auger challenges us to examine our own thoughts, feelings and fears - our own experience - of the death and dying phenomena.

Jeanette A. Auger teaches sociology at Acadia University and is the author of "From the Inside Looking Out: Competing Ideas About Growing Old" and "Passing Through: End of Life Decisions for Lesbians and Gay Men."