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Tables of Contents for Giving a Voice to Sorrow
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xv
Giving Shape to Sorrow
1
21
Jesse's Story
22
38
``Jesse, We Will Not Rush Grief''
28
32
Kristen Shantz
Dennis Cunningham
Storytelling
60
47
The Dying Tell Their Story, Too
61
2
The VA Troopers
63
4
Coming Home
64
3
Susan Perlstein
The Role of Hospice
67
6
``Here I Am, Here's What I Did''
69
4
Katherine Blossom
Living with Dying
73
5
Iolene's Soliloquy
74
4
Iolene Catalano
The Author of Myself
78
1
The Storytelling Wake
79
5
Death and Silence
84
3
``You Were Great''
84
3
Amanda Dargan
Death on the Range
87
3
Bones
88
2
Teresa Jordan
Story as Ritual
90
3
The Wishbone
91
2
Ron Landsman
Writing It Down
93
2
Dreams
95
2
Coincidence as Communication
97
2
Judithness
99
2
Michael and Margaret
101
4
``I'll Send You a Sign''
101
4
Michael Walsh
Trump Cards and Rainbows
105
1
Homo Narrans
106
1
Ritual and Ceremony
107
54
The Beau Geste
109
3
Stillborn
112
3
``We Had to Do Something for This Child''
112
3
Susan Knightly
The Feeling of Empty Hands
115
1
Designing Death
116
1
Liza's Story
117
18
``I Know How I Want to Die''
120
15
Elena Lister
The Last Passage
135
7
Until I Am One Hundred
136
6
Barbara Myerhoff
Home Altars
142
2
House of Cards
143
1
Marlene Lortev Terwilliger
A Prom and a Yearbook
144
10
``When This You See, Remember Me''
146
8
Lila Zeiger
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
154
7
Scatter My Ashes
155
6
Miguel Algarin
Commemorative Art
161
54
Creating a Place for the Dead
163
8
Crafting a Vessel for My Father
165
6
Peggy King-Jorde
Art at the End of Life
171
4
``I've Been a Good Life''
172
3
Jane Cameron
Legacies
175
3
Drawing Father
176
2
C Bangs
A Weekly Memorial
178
3
Music to Remember Him
178
3
Marjorie Eliot
Mourning Quilts
181
8
Portrait of a Personality
184
2
Sheryl Mullane-Corvi
Sacred Fabric
186
3
Kathleen Doyle
A Communal Casket Cover
189
3
Memorial Walls
192
8
``Common, Everyday People Who Were Loved''
195
5
Hector ``Nicer'' Nazario
Graven Images
200
8
The Permanent Side of the Bed
202
6
Paul Monette
Public Evidence of a Private Memory
208
7
One Hundred Smooth Stones for Grandfather
210
5
Arlan Huang
Notes
215