Death: Current Perspectives

by Edwin S. Shneidman (Editor)

Discusses attitudes toward death, legal definitions of death, aspects of dying, suicide, grief, mourning, and nuclear destruction.

490 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Dr. Edwin S. Shneidman (born c. 1918) is a noted American suicidologist/thanatologist. He with co-workers from the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center provided a major stimulus to research into suicide and its prevention. He was the founder of the American Association of Suicidology and of the principal United States journal for suicide studies, Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior. He is Professor of Thanatology Emeritus at the University of California and lives in Los Angeles.