Death, grief and loss in the context of COVID-19 / edited by Panagiotis Pentaris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: capturing the beginning of a long journey of loss, trauma and grief / Panagiotis Pentaris -- Referring to SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19 -- Part I: Reconsidering death and grief in Covid-19 -- Part II: Institutional care and Covid-19 -- Part III: Impact of Covid-19 in context -- Part I: Reconsidering death and grief in Covid-19 -- 1 Familiarity with death / Panagiotis Pentaris and Kate Woodthorpe -- The pre-Covid-19 visibility of death -- The visibility of death in the face of the pandemic -- Inequalities -- A politicisation of death -- 2 Grief in the COVID-19 pandemic / Kenneth J. Doka -- COVID-19 in context -- Populations at risk for grief in the pandemic -- Coping with grief -- Interventive approaches -- 3 Apocalypse now: COVID-19 and the crisis of meaning / Robert A. Neimeyer, Evgenia Milman, and Sherman A. Lee -- Anxiety in the context of COVID-19 -- Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) -- Grief in the time of corona -- Pandemic Grief Scale (PGS) -- From screening to meaning: prescriptions for practice -- Coda -- 4 Physically distant but socially connected: streaming funerals, memorials and ritual design during COVID-19 / Stacey Pitsillides and Jayne Wallace -- Make do and mending: the technologies and memorials of COVID-19 -- Funeral directors' creative uses of communication technologies and presence -- What could technology do? -- Conclusion: design directions for COVID-19 -- 5 Social death in 2020: Covid-19, which lives matter and which deaths count? / Jana K̀rlòv -- ‘Archaeology’ of social death: three schools of thought -- The exceptions -- Covid-19: which lives matter and which deaths count? -- Part II: Institutional care and Covid-19 -- 6 End-of-life decision-making in the context of a pandemic / Natalie Pattison and Lucy Ryan -- End-of-life decisions – a global rationing context -- Rationing resources: a necessary evil during COVID-19? -- Factors that influence health care decisions at the end of life: application to COVID-19 -- Decision-making principles in COVID-19 -- Decision aides and shared decision-making -- Advanced Care Planning in a pandemic -- Achieving best practice principles -- 7 NHS values, ritual, religion, and Covid19 death / Douglas Davies -- Worldview, ideas-identity-destiny -- 8 Non-COVID-19 related dying and death during the pandemic / Wai Yee Chee, Samuel S.Y. Wang, Winnie Z.Y. Teo, Melissa Fong, Andy Lee, and Woon Chai Yong -- Case 1 The effects of COVID-19 on a non-COVID-19 related, hospitalised palliative patient during the pandemic: dying, death and grieving in a foreign land -- Discussion -- Case 2 The effects of COVID-19 on the care plans of a non-COVID home palliative patient during the pandemic: overtreatment, ethical concerns and funerary constraints -- Grieving other non-COVID-19 related deaths during the pandemic -- 9 Covid-19 and care home deaths and harms: a case study from the UK / Alisoun J. Milne -- Care homes and care home populations in the UK -- Covid-19 and deaths in care homes -- Covid-19 and harm -- 10 Impact of Covid-19 on mental health and associated losses / Manju Shahul-Hameed, John Foster, Gina Foster, Gina Finnerty, and Panagiotis Pentaris -- Mental health pre Covid-19 -- Impact of Covid-19 on mental health -- Covid-19 and the digital divide -- Change, loss and bereavement -- Suicidal ideation -- 11 Assisted dying and Covid-19/ Theo Boer and Kevin Yuill -- Legal developments -- Practical developments -- A necessary act of compassion? -- Patients who want help to die: loneliness, fear, and fear of being a burden -- A rise in telemedicine -- A differential value on human lives -- Part III: Impact of COVID-19 in context -- 12 Losing touch? Older people and COVID-19 / Renske Claasje Visser -- The importance of touch -- Loss of touch -- New ways of keeping in touch -- 13 Between cultural necrophilia and African American activism: life and loss in the age of COVID / Kami Fletcher and Tamara Waraschinski -- Introduction: COVID-19 + White supremacy = thousands of African American deaths -- Cultural necrophilia: revisiting death and grief illiteracy during a global pandemic -- The link between death denial and White supremacy -- African American deathways amidst COVID-19, the 2020 pandemic and White supremacy -- African American deathways as a response to dehumanized Black Life and dishonored Black Death -- Conclusion: Black feminist and womanist frameworks as ways through the crisis -- References -- 14 The biopolitics and stigma of the HIV and Covid-19 pandemics / Jason Schaub -- Biopolitics -- Stigma -- Lessons from HIV for the Covid-19 pandemic -- 15 Suicide in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic / Mohammed A. Mamun and Jannatul Mawa Misti -- The COVID-19 pandemic and mental health -- What is suicide? -- Prior pandemics and suicide -- Suicide in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic -- Theories of suicide in the COVID-19 context -- 16 Death and dying during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Indian context / Apurva Kumar Pandya and Khyati Tripathi -- Changing the nature of death, dying and mourning in COVID-19 -- Death rituals, stigma and coping in the era of COVID-19 -- Dying with dignity in the times of COVID-19

"This book provides detailed analysis of the manifold ways in which COVID-19 has influenced death, dying and bereavement. Through three parts: Reconsidering Death and Grief in Covid-19; Institutional Care and Covid-19; and the Impact of COVID-19 in Context, the book provides explores COVID-19 as a reminder of our own and our communities' fragile existence, but also the driving force for discovering new ways of meaning-making, performing rites and rituals, and conceptualising death, grief and life. Contributors include scholars, researchers, policymakers and practitioners, accumulating in a multi-disciplinary, diverse and international set of ideas and perspectives that will help the reader examine closely how Covid-19 has invaded social life and shaped trauma and loss. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of death studies, biomedicine, and end of life care as well as those working in sociology, social work, medicine, social policy, cultural studies, anthropology, psychology, counselling and nursing more broadly."--Publisher's description