The last dance : encountering death and dying / Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland.
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TextPublication details: Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2005.Edition: 7th edDescription: xxiii, 664 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0072920963
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- BF 789.D4 D53 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 555-640) and index.
Chapter 1. Attitudes toward death: a climate of change
Chapter 2. Learning about death: the influence of sociocultural forces
Chapter 3. Perspectives on death: cross-cultural and historical
Chapter 4. Health care systems: patients, staff, and institutuons
Chapter 5. Death systems: matters of public policy
Chapter 6. Facing death: living with life-threatening illness
Chapter 7. End-of-life issues and decisions
Chapter 8. Survivors: understanding the experience of loss
Chapter 9. Last rites: funerals and body disposition
Chapter 10. Death in the lives of children and adolescents
Chapter 11. Death in the lives of adults
Chapter 12. Suicide
Chapter 13. Risks of death in the modern world
Chapter 14. Beyond death/after life
Chapter 15. The path ahead: personal and social choices