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Using a social-psychological approach, the new edition of this book remains solidly grounded in theory and research, while also providing useful information to help individuals examine their own feelings about-and cope with-death and grieving. The well-known authors and researchers integrate stimulating personal accounts throughout the text, and apply concepts to specific examples that deal with cross cultural perspectives and the practical matters of death and dying.

Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement

1. Studying Dying, Death, and Bereavement.

2. The American Experience of Death.

3. Growing Up with Death/Growing Old with Death.

4. Perspectives on Death and Life after Death.

5. The Dying Process.

6. Living with Dying.

7. Dying in the American Health Care System.

8. Biomedical Issues and Euthanasia.

9. Suicide and Other Sudden, Unnatural Traumatic Deaths.

10. Diversity in Death Rituals.

11. The Business of Dying.

12. The Legal Aspects of Dying.

13. Coping With Loss.

14. Grieving Throughout the Life Cycle.