TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeSpelder,Lynne Ann
AU  - Strickland,Albert Lee
TI  - The last dance: encountering death and dying 
SN  - 9780073405469 (alk. paper)
AV  - BF789.D4 D53 2009
U1  - 155.9/37 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Boston
PB  - McGraw Hill Higher Education
KW  - Death
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-626) and indexes; 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
ER  -