Too Poor to Die

The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins

Amy Shea (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
9781978843998 (ISBN)

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Death is the great equalizer, but not all deaths are created equal. In recent years, there has been an increased interest and advocacy concerning end-of-life and after-death care. An increasing number of individuals and organizations from health care to the funeral and death care industries are working to promote and encourage people to consider their end-of-life wishes. Yet, there are limits to who these efforts reach and who can access such resources. These conversations come from a place of good intentions, but also from a place of privilege.

Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins, a collection of closely connected essays, takes the reader on a journey into what happens to those who die while experiencing homelessness or who end up indigent or unclaimed at the end of life. Too Poor to Die bears witness to the disparities in death and dying faced by some of society’s most vulnerable and marginalized and asks the reader to consider their own end-of-life and disposition plans within the larger context of how privilege and access plays a role in what we want versus what we get in death.

Amy Shea is the writing program director for Mount Tamalpais College, a college for incarcerated people in San Quentin, CA. Her essays have appeared in The Missouri Review, Portland Review,The Massachusetts Review, the Journal of Sociology of Health & Illness, and others.

Foreword by Jillian Olmsted
Introduction

1          Remembering the Forgotten: The Space that Remains
2          Assaying: On the Anxiety of Positionality
3          Death by a Thousand Viewings
4          How to Have a Good Death, or, The Dead Grandma Essay
5          The Department of Transitional Assistance: Burial Unit
6          Field Notes of a Tombstone Tourist
7          On Bodies & Embodiment
8          Sweet Feet
9          Deaths of Disparity
10        Rest in Place: Hospice for Unhoused Individuals
11        In Memoriam
12        Indexing the Life & Death Experience of Homelessness A Poem

Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2025
Zusatzinfo	26 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9781978843998 / 9781978843998
Zustand	Neuware