The Psychology of Death Author:Robert Kastenbaum "So well written and so thoroughly imaginative in its superbly organized exploration of almost every facet of death, dying..." Publishers Weekly "How much do people think about death as they go through life? What is it we actually fear when we 'fear death'? What role does our orientation toward death play in our personality and life-style? How... more » does this orientation develop from youth to old age? How is it influenced by situation and events? Pursuing questions such as these might be expected to contribute to self-knowledge. In turn, enhanced self-knowledge might illuminate the choices we make in our orientations toward death." It is over 20 years since the publication of Dr Kastenbaum's groundbreaking work on the psychology of death, then introduced for the first time as a coherent and challenging field of research unto itself. Now this preeminent authority in the field offers a major rethinking of his pioneering work. Given today's extended life span, and given that so many of us are now living longer, and more comfortably with chronic illnesses, the subject of death is one that touches us with increasing power and directness. New to the Third Edition are chapters on how we construct death; death in adolescence and adulthood including discussion on suicide, physician assisted death and regret theory and denial; new approaches to the role of death anxiety, terror management theory, and edge theory, and much more.« less