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.

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

My copy is 1976. I remember reading this in undergraduate school in psychology for a class I took. I remember liking it pretty well and that it introduced me to some really interesting concepts. This would have been about 1978 or 79. I wasn't recording all my nonfiction reads at the time but I held onto this book and recently refound it when I was clearing out some old shelves at my work. Thus I'm recording it now in 2026 although I read it long before.