DeSpelder, Lynne Ann,  1944- <br/><br/>
The last dance :  encountering death and dying / 
Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland. 
 - 8th ed. 
 - Boston :  McGraw Hill Higher Education,  c2009. 
 - xxiv, 648 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-626) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780073405469 (alk. paper) 0073405469 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008344527 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Death--Psychological aspects--Textbooks.<br/>Death--Social aspects--Textbooks.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BF789.D4  / D53 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>155.9/37