Loss

[shaula82]

"The four main types of death personification are the macabre (decaying form), the gentle comforter (powerful force quietly employed in a kindly way), the gay deceiver (luring in the unwary and leading them to their doom) and the automaton (goes about the business of death in a bored competent fashion)" - Cotter, 2003

Comments

[deepfishy]

Interesting quotes. What texts are they from?

[shaula82]

Child, youth and family health : strengthening communities - Margaret Barnes (ed) and Cotter RP - "High risk behaviours in adolescence and their relationship to death anxiety and death personifications" OMEGA: The Journal of Death and Dying 47(2): 119-37 (in Barnes). :)