Postmortal society :  towards a sociology of immortality / 
edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen. 
 - First edition. 
 - 1 online resource (3 volumes pages) 
 - Studies in death, materiality and the origin of time .
 - Studies in death, materiality and the origin of time. .
<br/><br/>1. How the dead survive : ancestors, immortality, memory / Tony Walter -- 2. The future of death and the four pathways to immortality / Guy Brown -- 3. Individualised immortality in liquid-modern times : teasing out the topic of symbolic immortality in the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- 4. Terror management theory : surviving the awareness of death one way or another / Uri Lifshin, Peter J. Helm and Jeff Greenberg -- 5. The immortalisation of celebrities / David Giles -- 6. The contemporary imaginary of work : symbolic immortality within the postmodern corporate discourse / Adriana Teodorescu -- 7. The neural identity : strategies of immortality in contemporary western culture / Gianfranco Pecchinenda -- 8. Toward post-human : the dream of never-ending life / Nunzia Bonfati -- 9. Digital immortality or digital death? : contemplating digital end of life planning / Carla J. Sofka, Allison Gibson and Danielle R. Silberman -- 10. The virtual concept of death / William Sims Bainbridge -- 11. The proliferation of postselves in American civic and popular cultures / Michael C. Kearl. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781315601700 9781317077213 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4324/9781315601700   doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mortality--Social aspects.<br/>Immortalism--Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HB1321  / .P67 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>304.6  / P858