Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home

Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home

Each year a number of bodies are found of people who have died alone at home and whose absence from daily life has not been noticed. Media reports tend either to cast these individuals as deviant, or wider society as having abandoned them to a lonely death. This paper proposes an alternative view, o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Caswell, Glenys, O'Connor, Morna
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis 2015
Subjects:
Agency
Dying alone
Social death
Lone death
Found dead
Post-death identity
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31636/

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