The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying

Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defining death, to suggesting what happens after life. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying provides readers with an overview of the study of death and dying. Questions of death, mortality, and more recently of end-of-life care, have long been important ones and scholars from a range of fields have approached the topic in a number of ways. This comprehensive collection of essays will bring together perspectives from fields as diverse as history, philosophy and literature. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, philosophy and literature.