From Here to Eternity: Hour the Bereaved Maintain Connections to Lost Loved Ones and Why It Matters

摘要

Bereavement Narratives explores the many ways in which bereaved people maintain relationships with deceased loved ones and of the factors-social, cultural, personal-that shape peoples' experience of death, dying, and bereavement. Taking as her starting point the work of Klass and others (Klass, Silverman, & Nickman, 1996) concerning the value of continuing bonds for the bereaved, Valentine reports "how the social reality of death and bereavement in contemporary Britain is both characterized and constructed by a diversity of meanings and world views" (p. 2).