 MICHAEL KEARL
Death and dying; aging; nostalgia; mall culture; time; Internet
Professor of sociology; extensive research into aging, social impacts of the old age revolution, death and dying; authority on hospice movement, near-death experiences, feelings and power of emotions, mall culture, nostalgic movements and how culture views time; uses Internet extensively in the classroom; former member of the Texas State Board of Morticians; author of Endings: A Sociology of the Dying and the Dead and Dying American Style: From Moral to Technological Rite of Passage. |