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Death in the World of Adolescence (IN: Adolescence and Death, ed. by C A Corr and J N McNeil)
Kastenbaum R
In this introductory chapter the author gives illustrations of death as experienced by adolescents taken from formal research & everyday life. He discusses 2 unresolved questions: “I die, therefore I am” & “Living for what? Dying for what?” the answers to which may lead to a better understanding of adolescence & death. He suggests that there are no theories special to death or adolescence contributing to understanding as we would like to believe. (CM)