Books by Robert Kastenbaum

Revised edition of Death, society, and human experience, c2012.

Gives priority to microscopic, immediate, direct transactions between a focal individual - the one affected by the prospect of soon to come death and two classes of people: those included in the core of that person's personal network and the health care personnel treating and accompanying soon to die people.

New to this third edition on the psychology of death are chapters on how we construct death; death in adolescence and adulthood, including suicide; physician assisted death, regret theory and denial; new approaches to the role of death anxiety; terror management theory; and edge theory.