Death, dying and bereavement / edited by Donna Dickenson, Malcolm Johnson and Jeanne Samson Katz.

Previous ed.: 1993.

Published in association with the Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Life and death: Introduction- 1. Death in staithes--2. Death denied--3.Death in the news: the public invigilation of private emotion--4. Approaches to death in Hindu and Sikh communities in Britain--5.Demographic change and the experience of dying--6. Health policy and services for dying people and their carers--7. Sudden death from suicie--8. The dream--9. The good death--10. Little Henry; or, God will take care of me--11. Death be not proud--12. Aubade--13. Do not go gentle into that good night--14. The Prophet--15. Doctor\'s mask on pain--16. Spiritual care of dying people--17. Death and the meaning of life--Part 2. Caring for dying people: Introduction:--18. Extending specialist palliative care to all?--19. The case for palliative care in residential and nursing homes--20. Complementary medicine-its place in the care of dying people--21. Spoeaking out--22. Caring for mother-plus postscript--23. Living with MS--24. Saturday times column 3.10.98--25. The alphabet--26.Communications in palliative care: a practical guide--27. Saturday times column 23.1.99-- 28. Communicating with dying children--29. Jewish perspectives on death, dying and bereavement--30. The syllabus--31.Dying trajectories, the organization of work and expectations of dying--32. Sitting it out--33. A very easy death--34. Teach me to hear mermaids singing--Part 3. Dilemma and decisions at the End of Life-- Introduction: 35. Learning the hard way--36. Somebody loves me--37. The death of Ivan Ilyich--38. Intimacy and terminal care--39. The use of deception in nursing--40.Do-not-resusitate decisions--41. TheBlue-spotted patient: do-not-resusitate decisions in the acute surgical wards of an english district general hospital--42. The main tradition--43. Right to die or duty to live? The problem of euthanasia--44. Euthanasia and assisted suicide: seven reasons why they should not be legalised--45. A student\'s story--46. Betting your life: an arguement against certain advance directives--47. Palliative care and the doctrine of double effect--48. Palliative care and the ethics of resource allocation--49. On withholding nutrition and hydration in the terminally ill: has palliative care gone too fat?--50.On withholding nutrition and hydration in the terminally ill: has palliative medicine gone too far>--Part 4: Bereavement: Private Grief, Collective responsibility: Introduction:- 51. Bereavement as a psychosocial transition: processes of adaptation to change--52. The social distribution of sentiments--53. Cross-cultural perspectives on bereavement--54. I desperately needed to see my son--55.A single parent confronting the loss of an only child--56. Epitaph of Libby Dickinson--1798-1818--57. Pregnancy loss and the death of a baby: parents\' choices--58. When a baby dies - a father\'s view--59. Gay and lesbian bereavement--60. The grief that does not speak--61. Personal and medical memories from Hillsborough--62. Ruth: death by murder--63. Essays upon epitaphs--64. December.

This volume combines academic research with professional and personal reflections. It includes coverage of death in the news, palliative care and the ethics of resource allocation, dying in residential and nursing homes, euthanasia and other topics.