Death, Society, and Human ExperienceNew edition of a text which examines our relationship to death by drawing upon scholarship and research as well as on the words of people who have found themselves in the middle of death-related situations. Fifteen chapters discuss subjects including the death system, causes of death, transition fro |
Contents
AS WE THINK ABOUT DEATH | 1 |
WHAT IS DEATH? | 25 |
THE DEATH SYSTEM | 53 |
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adults African Americans agree Tend AIDS American assisted death attitudes become behavior believe bereaved brain death cancer capital punishment caregivers cause of death Chapter child communication concept condition cope dead Death and Dying death anxiety death education death personification death system death-related deceased disease dying person dying process emotional ence euthanasia example experience fear feelings funeral grief hospice hospice care human individual infection interaction Jack Kevorkian Journal of Death Kastenbaum Kevorkian killed Lethal injection life-threatening lives loss ment mortality murder Native Americans near-death experiences nurse observed Omega pain palliative care parents patient pattern perhaps persistent vegetative physician possible problems programs question relationship response risk sense situation social society staff stages stress suicide survival survivors terminally ill terrorism thoughts tion trajectory treatment United widow women York young