The last dance : encountering death and dying

• Main Authors: DeSpelder, Lynne Ann, 1944- (Author), Strickland, Albert Lee (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston : McGraw Hill Higher Education, c2009
• Edition: 8th ed.
• Subjects: tanatologie; umírání > mezioborový kontext; smrt > mezioborový kontext; thanatology; dying > interdisciplinary context; death > interdisciplinary context; učebnice vysokých škol; textbooks (higher)
• ISBN: 9780073405469; 0-07-340546-9
• Physical Description: xxiv, 648 s. : il. ; 24 cm

Table of Contents:

• Attitudes toward death : a climate of change
• Learning about death : the influence of sociocultural forces
• Perspectives on death : cultural and historical
• Death systems : mortality and society
• Health care : patients, staff, and institutions
• End-of-life issues and decisions
• Facing death : living with life-threatening illness
• Last rites : funerals and body disposition
• Survivors : understanding the experience of loss
• Death in the lives of children and adolescents
• Death in the lives of adults
• Suicide
• Threats of horrendous death
• Beyond death/after life
• The path ahead : personal and social choices