Gerry R. Cox is a professor emeritus of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where he served as the director of the Center for Death Education & Bioethics. His teaching focused upon theory/theory construction; deviance and criminology; death and dying; social psychology; and minority peoples. He has over 150 publications, including over 30 books. He has served as editor of Illness, Crisis & Loss and for The Midwest Sociologist. He is a member of the International Work Group on Dying, Death and Bereavement, the Midwest Sociological Society, the American Sociological Association, the International Sociological Association, Phi Kappa Phi, and the Great Plains Sociological Society. He served on the board of directors of the National Prison Hospice Association.

Neil Thompson is an independent writer, educator, and adviser. Formerly a univer­sity professor, he is currently a visiting professor at the Open University in the UK. He is also the Vice President of Vigoroom UK, a sophisticated employee well­ness platform. He has been a speaker at conferences and seminars in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Greece, Norway, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Turkey, India, Hong Kong, Canada, the United States, and Australia. He holds a Lifetime Achievement Award from BASW Cymru, the Welsh branch of the British Association of Social Workers and the Dr. Robert Fulton Award for excellence in the field of death, grief, and bereavement from the Center for Death Education and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He is a member of the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement. His website, with his acclaimed Manifesto for Making a Difference, is at [...]

Both are well-published authors and editors. Together they have produced: The Handbook of Traumatic Loss (Eds. with R. Stevenson), Routledge, 2017. The Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief, and Bereavement (Eds.). Routledge, 2018. Promoting Resilience: Responding to adversity, vulnerability and loss (Eds.). Routledge, 2019. Death and Dying: Sociological Perspectives, Routledge, 2020.

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