Found in This Section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Comprehensive Table of Contents
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface
Chapter 1: As We Think About Death
Chapter 2: What is Death?
Chapter 3: The Death System
Chapter 4: Dying
Chapter 5: Hospice and Palliative Care
Chapter 6: End of Life Issues and Decisions
Chapter 7: Suicide
Chapter 8: Violent Death: Murder, Terrorism, Genocide, Disaster, and Accident
Chapter 9: Euthanasia. Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die
Chapter 10: Death in the World of Childhood
Chapter 11: Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning
Chapter 12: The Funeral Process
Chapter 13: Do We Survive Death?
Chapter 14: How Can We Help?
Chapter 15: Good Life, Good Death?
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
*Every chapter ends with Summary, References, and Glossary
Chapter 1: AS WE THINK ABOUT DEATH
- Not Thinking About Death: A Failed Experiment
- Your Self-Inventory Of Attitudes, Beliefs, And Feelings
- Some Answers-And The Questions They Raise
- Man Is Mortal: But What Does That Have To Do With Me?
- Anxiety, Denial, And Acceptance: Three Core Concepts
- Studies And Theories Of Death Anxiety 18 Major Findings From Self-Reports Of Death Anxiety
- Major Findings From Self-Reports of Death Anxiety
- Theoretical Perspectives on Death Anxiety
- Accepting and Denying Death
Chapter 2: WHAT IS DEATH?
- Ideas About The Nature And Meaning Of Death
- Death as Observed, Proclaimed, and Imagined
- Biomedical Approaches to the Definition of Death
- Event Versus State
- What Does Death Mean?
- Interpretations of the Death State
- Conditions that Resemble Death
- Death as a Person
- Conditions that Death Resembles
- The Undead
- Death as an Agent of Personal, Political, and Social Change
Chapter 3: THE DEATH SYSTEM
- A WORLD WITHOUT DEATH
- BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DEATH SYSTEM
- COMPONENTS OF THE DEATH SYSTEM
- Functions of the Death System
- Tsunami, Cyclone, Earthquake, and Hurricane Katrina-Challenges to the Death System
- Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- How Our Death System Has Been Changing-And the "Deathniks" Who are Making a Difference
Chapter 4: DYING
- The Moment of Death: Is It Vanishing?
- What is Dying, and When Does it Begin?
- Trajectories of Dying: From Beginning to End
- Guarded Feelings, Subtle Communications
- Individuality and Universality in the Experience of Dying
- Theoretical Models of the Dying Process
Chapter 5: Hospice and Palliative Care
- Hospice: a New Flowering from Ancient Roots
- Standards of Care for the Terminally Ill
- The Hospice in Action
- Relief of Pain and Suffering
- Hospice Access, Decision Making, and Challenges
- Dame Cicely Saunder's Reflections on Hospice
Chapter 6: End-0f-Life Issues and Decisions
- From Description to Decision Making
- Who Should Participate in End-Of-Life Decisions
- The Living Will and its Impact
- Right-To-Die Decisions that We Can Make
- A Right Not to Die? The Cryonics Alternative
- Organ Donation
- Funeral-Related Decisions
Chapter 7: Suicide
- What Do the Statistics Tell Us?
- Four Problem Areas
- Some Cultural Meanings of Suicide
- A Powerful Sociological Theory of Suicide
- Some Individual Meanings of Suicide
- Facts and Myths about Suicide
- Suicide Prevention
Chapter 8: Violent Death: Murder, Terrorism, Genocide, Disaster, and Accident
- Murder
- Terrorism
- Accident and Disaster
Chapter 9: Euthanasia, Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die
- "I Swear By Apollo the Physician": What Happened to the Hippocratic Oath?
- Our Changing Attitudes Toward a Right to Die
- The Right-To-Die Dilemma: Case Examples
- Terri Schiavo: Who Decides?
- Dr. Kevorkian and the Assisted-Suicide Movement
- Assisted Death in the United States
- Induced Abortion
Chapter 10: Death in the World of Childhood
- Respecting the Child's Concern and Curiosity
- Adult Assumptions About Children and Death
- Children Do Think About Death
- Concepts and Fears: Developing Through Experience
- How Do 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?
Chapter 11: Bereavement, Grief and Mourning
- Some Responses to Loss
- Defining Our Terms: Bereavement, Grief, Mourning
- What Kind of Grief?
- Theories of Greif
- How Do People Recover from Grief?
- Bereavement in Later Life
- Are Bereaved People At Higher Risk for Death?
- How Well Do We Support the Bereaved?
- Meaningful Help for Bereaved People
- Widows in Third World Nations
- On the Future of Grieving and Mourning
Chapter 12: The Funeral Process
- A Sampler of Responses to the Dead
- 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
- The Funeral Director's Perspective
- Improving the Funeral Process
- Spontaneous Memorialization in Response to Violent Death
- Integrity and Abuse in the Funeral and Memorial Process
Chapter 13: Do We Survive Death?
- Concept of Survival in Historic Perspective
- Heavens and Hells
- The Desert Religions and Their One God
- What Other People Believe Today
- Can Survival Be Proved?
- When Spiritism Was in Flower
- Near-Death Experiences: Evidence for Survival?
- Should We Survive Death?
- But What Kind of Survival?
- Assisted and Symbolic Survival
- The Suicide-Survival Connection
Chapter 14: How Can We Help?
- "Compassionate Fatigue": Burnout and the Healthcare Provider
- 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
Chapter 15: Good Life, Good Death?
- Three Paths to Death
- A Father Dies: A Mission Begins
- A Shift in the Meaning of Life and Death
- Utopia: A Better Death in a Better Place?
- "The Good Death": Fantasy or Reality?
- Extinction: Death of Life or Death of Death?
- From Good Life to Good Death: A Personal Statement
