| Leo Tolstoy: revered author and influential thanatologist. |
| The services are provided by a master-level social worker who also is a certified thanatologist. |
| It may seem isolating, but many people are ambivalent about the death of an intimate, says Jean Miller, a thanatologist at the University of Rhode Island. |
| She is the first critical incident thanatologist assigned to an emergency response exercise associated with unconventional concepts in weapons of mass destruction. |
