Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Leen Van Brussel and Nico Carpentier -- A discourse-t heoretical approach to death and dying / Leen Van Brussel -- Studying i llness and dying through constructivist grounded theory / Linda Liska B elgrave and Kathy Charmaz -- Feeling bodies: analysing the unspeakabili ty of death / John Cromby and Adele Phillips -- Representations of corp ses in contemporary television / Tina Weber -- Ladies' choice? requeste d death in film / Fran Mcinerney -- The expertise of illness: celebrity constructions and public understandings / Daniel Ashton -- Death, fant asy, and the ethics of mourning / Jason Glynos -- Ethics, killing and d ying: the discursive struggle between ethics of war and peace models in the Cypriot Independence War of 1955-1959 / Nico Carpentier -- From th eft to donation: dissection, organ donation and collective memory / Gle nnys Howarth -- Digital objects of the dead: negotiating electronic rem ains / Margaret Gibson -- "This in-between": how families talk about de ath in relation to severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness / Celia Kitzinger and Jenny Kitzinger -- Afterword / Joachim Cohen.