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In a sense comparable to the physical autopsy
or postmortem examination me psychological
autopsy is the fulcrum for a scientific study of
the psychology of death dying ant re-
threatening behavior a field called thanatol-
ogy. The present book is the first ever to
systematically expouna the piece-by-piece re-
construction and synthesis of events sur-
rounding the terminalphase of life.
The author shows that to reanze death we
must penetrate our habitua fears platitudes,
formulas, and pretenses. In reaching these
goals, we should understand that there s a
difference between strrvival and significant
survival, between dying ana appropriate
death, aria between s ckness and responsibil-
ity. These questionsare posed and then care-
fully dissected and defined in terms of plaus-
ible answers.
As Dr. Edwin S. Shneidman savs n his fas-
cinating foreword to the book: "The nsv-
chological autopsy is no longer an ntant. It
comes of age in Dr. Weisman s book, The spe-
cial features of it lie in its multidisciplinary
spirit, the involvement of several strides OT
social and behaviora scientists in me retro-
spective creation from as many sources as
possible, of the tangible teatures of a now-
dead fellow human--to bring him to life as it
were and then try to divine his motivations
intentions, attitudes, and amb valences in rela-
tion to one specific temporal span of behavior
which in itself had extreme consequences
his dying. Dr. Weisman aptly terms this the
"lOCal event... .
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