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Practical and inspiring, this book helps you learn how to navigate encounters with death, dying, and bereavement. The authors emphasize ways that individuals and families can cope with life-threatening illness, grief, funerals, and other death-related topics -- including how to communicate constructively in the face of death. You'll learn about aided death -- a topic on many people's minds these days -- as well as about Alzheimer's disease and other life-altering conditions and prominent causes of death. You'll read personal stories and get insight into cultural and religious perspectives that affect people's encounters, attitudes, and practices in death-related matters. And you'll discover that you can gain important lessons about life and living from the study of death, dying, and bereavement.

Death and Dying, Life and Living

Part I: LEARNING ABOUT DEATH, DYING AND BEREAVEMENT.

1. Education about Death, Dying, and Bereavement.

Part II: DEATH.

2. Changing Encounters with Death.

3. Changing Attitudes toward Death.

4. Death-Related Practices and the American Death System.

5. Cultural Patterns and Death.

Part III: DYING.

6. Coping with Dying.

7. Coping with Dying: How Individuals Can Help.

8. Coping with Dying: How Communities Can Help.

Part IV: BEREAVEMENT

9. Coping with Loss and Grief.

10. Coping with Loss and Grief: How Individuals Can Help.

11. Coping with Loss and Grief: Funeral Practices and Other Ways Communities Can Help.

PART V: DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES.

12. Children.

13. Adolescents.

14. Young and Middle-Aged Adults.

15. Older Adults.

Part VI: LEGAL, CONCEPTUAL, AND MORAL ISSUES.

16. Legal Issues.

17. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.

18. Aided Death: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Aid in Dying.

19. The Meaning and Place of Death in Life.

Part VII: AN EXAMPLE OF A SPECIFIC DISEASE ENTITY.

20. Illustrating the Themes of This Book: Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders.

Epilogue: Calendar Date Gives Mom Reason to Contemplate Life.

Appendix A. Selected Literature for Children: Annotated Descriptions.

Appendix B. Selected Literature for Adolescents: Annotated Descriptions.

Appendix C. Activity Books and Memory Books for Young Readers: Annotated Descriptions.