The Last Dance: Encountering Death and DyingNew edition of a basic text surveying attitudes, cross-cultural and historical perspectives, socialization, health care systems, living with life-threatening illness, funerals and body disposition, the experience of loss, death in children's lives, medical ethics, the law, suicide, and concepts of i |
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СНАРТE R I | 5 |
CrossCultural and Historical | 49 |
CHAPTER 3 | 91 |
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adults AIDS Albert Lee American beliefs bereaved body brain death burial cancer caregivers casket child concern coping cremation cultural dead Death and Dying Death Education Death Studies 13 deceased disease dying and death effect Elisabeth Kübler-Ross emotional encounters with death ethical euthanasia example family members fear feelings friends funeral Greg Owen grief groups hospice care hospital human important individual informed consent involves issues Journal of Death Kastenbaum killing life-threatening illness living loss loved means memorial modern mourning near-death experiences nursing occur Omega one's organ organ donation organ transplantation pain Palliative Care parents Path Ahead person physicians programs psychological reality relationship Research response result risk rituals Robert Robert Fulton role says sense social society Stanislav Grof stress suicidal behavior surviving survivors terminally ill therapy tion traditional treatment understanding of death University Press York young