Postmortal society : towards a sociology of immortality / edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen.

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.