Roadside death memorials revisited: Mourning in public spaces

Private Memorials on Public Space: Roadside Crosses at the Intersection of the Free Speech Clause and the Establishment Clause

Authority from grief, presence and place in the making of roadside memorials.

Those who make memorials for the victims of motor vehicle crashes assume an authority to do so that stems from three main elements of experience: the overwhelming empowerment of grief; the belief that the presence of the deceased can be felt and recognized; and the understanding that the place where life was lost is a special place for memorialization. The strength of grief, the power of presen...

Compactification of -spaces Revisited Compactiication of G{spaces Revisited

We discuss compactiications of G{spaces from a new point of view that completely diiers from our earlier approaches. From a topologist's point of view, this new approach is more natural than the previous ones. In addition, it enables a uniied discussion of the compactiication and the linearization problem for G{spaces (which we shall discuss in a subsequent report). The central idea is to get a...

Pathological mourning after the death of a domestic pet.

Pathological bereavement reactions following the death of a close relative or friend have been well documented in the literature. Similar grief reactions have been described following other personal losses, such as the loss of a limb or the loss of one's homes. The cases of three women are described in whom pathological grief followed another category of loss, that represented by the death of a...

Mourning by the family after a stillbirth or neonatal death.

Failure of the parents to mourn after the sorrow of a stillbirth or neonatal death can result in dire consequences for the well-being of the family. Doctors and nurses should learn how to facilitate mourning and should accept the strange and sometimes bizarre forms this may take. When mourning is facilitated, the family is likely to adjust better to its bereavement.