blishment of Hospice Programs in the United States.
The Hospice in Action.
Hospice-Inspired Care for a Variety of People.
Does Hospice Care Prevent and Relieve Suffering?
Access to Hospice Care and the Decision-Making Process.
7. End-of-Life Issues and Decisions.
The Living Will and Its Impact.
Right-to-Die Decisions That We Can Make.
The Statistical Profile.
Three Problem Areas.
Some Cultural Meanings of Suicide.
A Powerful Sociological Theory of Suicide.
Some Individual Meanings of Suicide.
Facts, Myths, and Guidelines.
9. Violent Death; Murder, Terrorism, Disaster, and Accident.
Accident and Disaster.
10. Euthanasia, Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die.
“I Swear by Apollo the Physician” : What Happened to the Hippocratic Oath?
Key Terms and Concepts.
Our Changing Attitudes Toward a Right to Die.
The Right-to-Die Dilemma: Case Examples.
Dr. Kevorkian and the Assisted Suicide Movement.
11. Death in the World of Childhood.
Adult Assumptions about Children and Death.
Concepts of Death: Developing through Experience.
How Do Children Cope with Bereavement?
Helping Children Cope with Bereavement.
The Dying Child.
Sharing the Child's Death Concerns: A Few Guidelines.
The “Right” to Decide: Should the Child's Voice Be Heard?
12. Bereavement, Grief, And Mourning.
Defining Our Terms: Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning.
Theoretical Perspectives on Grief.
How Do People Recover from Grief?
Bereavement in Later Life.
Are Bereaved People at Higher Risk for Death?
Limited Support for the Bereaved.
Meaningful Help for Bereaved People.
13. The Funeral Process.
What Do Funerals Mean to Us?
From Dead Body to Living Memory: A Process Approach.
Making Death “Legal.”
What Does the Funeral Process Accomplish?
Memories of Our People: Cemeteries in the United States.
The Place of the Dead in Society: Yesterday and Today.
Current Developments: A Funeral Director's Perspective.
Improving the Funeral Process.
14. Do We Survive Death?
Concept of Survival in Historical Perspective.
Near-Death Experiences: New Evidence for Survival?
The Dead as Evidence for Survival.
Should We Survive Death?
But What Kind of Survival?
Your Thoughts on Survival: A Review.
The Suicide-Survival Connection.
15. How Can We Help? The Promise of Death Education and Counseling.
The Promise of Death Education and Counseling.
Death Educators and Counselors: The “Border Patrol.”
Death Education in Historical Perspective.
Death Education and Counseling: The Current Scene.
Counseling and the Counselors.
How We All Can Help?
16. Good Life, Good Death. Trying to Make Sense of it all.
Trying to make sense of it all.
“The Good Death” : Fantasy or Reality?
From Good Life to Good Death: A Personal Statement.