"Historically we have always employed our foremost technology in
the service of the dead. We have used whatever we had at our
disposal to mourn, to support, to share memories and to tell
stories. Carla J. Sofka, Illene Noppe Cupit, and Kathleen R.
Gilbert reaffirm that principle reminding us that this new
digital world both offers dramatic technologies and creates
considerable opportunities to deal with dying, death, and grief.
The editors are extraordinarily sensitive to the multiple ways
that this new technology has impacted upon the death system or
the ways that a society organizes behavior around dying and
death.Dying, Death, and Grief in an Online Universe is bound to
be a classic." Kenneth J Doka, PhD Professor, The College of New
Rochelle Senior Consultant, The Hospice Foundation of America
Modern communication technology has profoundly influenced
societal practices and views about dying, death, and loss. This
text, written for death educators, clinicians, researchers, and
students of thanatology, prov