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Introduction -- An overview of the facts / Hannelore Wass, Robert A. Neimeyer, Felix M. Berardo -- I. Problems and perspectives -- Living our dying : social and cultural considerations / John D. Morgan -- The definition of death : problems for public policy / Robert M. Veatch -- The study of death : a psychosocial perspective / Richard A. Kalish -- II. Data : the facts of dying and death -- Trends in the demography of death / Edward L. Kain -- Death anxiety / Robert A. Neimeyer -- The experience of dying / Lawrence C. Rainey -- Institutional dying : a convergence of cultural values, technology, and social organization / Jeanne Quint Benoliel -- Hospice care for the dying / Glen W. Davidson -- Death in the lives of children and adolescents / Hannelore Wass and Judith M. Stillion -- Suicide : prevalence, theories, and prevention / Anthony J. La Greca -- The funeral in contemporary society / Robert Fulton -- Bereavement and mourning / Donna Hodgkins Berardo -- Death and the law / Sheryl Schroeder Scheible -- III. Challenge : Meeting the issues of death -- The right to die : ethical and medical issues / Arthur Zucker -- Life preservation : individual and societal contexts / Felix M. Berardo, Anthony J. La Greca, Donna H. Berardo -- Threats to global survival / Harry H. Sisler and Hannelore Wass -- Conclusion -- Dying : integrating the facts / Hannelore Wass, Felix M. Barardo, Robert A. Neimeyer. |
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