Coping with the Final Tragedy

Preface


Introduction, David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts


The Grieving Process in Non-human Primates, Anne Zeller


Alice in the Afterlife: A Glimpse in the Mirror, Peter G. Ramsden


Sleep, Sleep, Sleep; Farewell, Farewell, Farewell, Maori Ideas about Death, Hirini Moko Mead


Death and Mourning among the Huicholes of Western Mexico, Celia García de Weigand and Phil C. Weigand


Saintly Death: Coping with Grief through Human Transformation, Earle Waugh


Po Starykovsky (The Old People's Way): End of Life Attitudes and Customs in Two Traditional Russian Communities, Richard A. Morris


Fallen Leaves: Death and Grieving in Toraja, Jane C. Wellenkamp


Death and Grieving among Northern Forest Hunters: An East Cree Example, Richard J. Preston and Sarah C. Preston


The Northern Athabaskan Potlatch: The Objectification of Grief, William E. Simeone


Cutting Your Losses: Death and Grieving in a Polynesian Community, Michael D. Lieber


Loss and Anger: Death and the Expression of Grief in Kaliai, Dorothy A. Counts and David R. Counts


Memories of Marie-Thérèse, Ellen Badone


Cultural Mediation of Dying and Grieving among Native Canadian Patients in Urban Hospitals, Joseph M. Kaufert and John D. O'Neil


Good Stories from There Develop Good Care Here: A Therapeutic Perspective, John A. O'Connor


Conclusions: Coping with the Final Tragedy, David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts


References Cited


Contributors


Index