Rev. ed. of: Death, dying & bereavement. 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Introduction to Second Edition - Jeanne Katz -- Part One: Life And Death -- Introduction - Jeanne Katz -- Death in Staithes - David Clark -- Death Denied - Philippe Ari[ac]es -- Death in the News - Tony Walter, Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering -- The Public Invigilation of Private Emotion -- Approaches to Death in Hindu and Sikh Communities in Britain - Shirley Firth -- Demographic Change and the Experience of Dying - Clive Seale -- Health Policy and Services for Dying People and Their Careers - Christina R Victor -- Sudden Death from Suicide - Stella Ridley -- The Dream - T R S -- The Good Death? - Mary Bradbury -- Little Henry; or, God Will Take Care of Me - H M Benson -- Death Be Not Proud - John Donne -- Aubade - Philip Larkin -- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas -- The Prophet - Kahil Gibran -- Doctor's Mask on Pain - Jane Martin -- Spiritual Care of Dying People - Alyson Peberdy -- Death and the Meaning of Life - Leo Tolstoy -- Part Two: Caring For Dying People -- Introduction - Jeanne Katz -- Extending Specialist Palliative Care to All? - David Field and Julia Addington-Hall -- The Case for Palliative Care in Residential and Nursing Homes - Moyral Sidell, Jeanne Katz and Carol Komaromy -- Complementary Medicine - Patrick C Pietroni -- Its Place in the Care of Dying People -- Speaking Out - Sarah Palmer -- Caring for Mother - Susan Leifer -- Plus Postscript -- Living with MS - Richard Were -- Saturday Times Column 3.10.98 - John Diamond -- The Alphabet - Jean-Dominique Bauby -- Communication in Palliative Care - Robert Buckman -- A Practical Guide -- Saturday Times Column 23.1.99 - John Diamond -- Communicating with Dying Children - Dorothy Judd -- Jewish Perspectives on Death, Dying and Bereavement - Jeanne Samson Katz -- The Syllabus - Mitch Albom -- Dying Trajectories, the Organization of Work and Expectations of Dying - Anselm Strauss -- Sitting It Out - Elizabeth Dean -- A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir -- Teach Me to Hear Mermaids Singing - Clare Vaughan -- Part Three: Dilemmas And Decisions At The End Of Life -- Introduction - Jeanne Katz -- Learning the Hard Way - Clare Williams -- Somebody Loves Me - Anthony Masters -- The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy -- Intimacy and Terminal Care - Judy Gilley -- The Use of Deception in Nursing - Kevin Teasdale and Gerry Kent -- Do-Not-Resusciate Decisions - Johannes J M van Delden -- The 'Blue-Spotted' Patient - Basiro Davey -- Do-not-resuscitate decisions in the acute surgical wards of a district general hospital. -- The Main Tradition - Fiona Randall and R S Downie -- Right to Die or Duty to Live? - William Grey -- The Problem of Euthanasia -- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - Luke Gormally -- Seven Reasons Why They Should Not be Legalized -- A Student's Story - Anonymous -- Betting Your Life - Christopher James Ryan -- An Argument against Certain Advance Directives -- Palliative Care and the Doctrine of Double Effect - Stephen Wilkinson -- Palliative Care and the Ethics of Resource Allocation - Eve Gerrard -- On Withholding Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill - Gillian M Craig -- Has Palliative Care Medicine Gone Too Far? -- On Withholding Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill - R J Dunlop, J E Ellershaw, M J Baines, N Sykes and C M Saunders -- Has Palliative Medicine Gone Too Far? A Reply -- Part Four: Bereavement: Private Grief, Collective Responsibility -- Introduction - Jeanne Katz -- Bereavement as a Psychosocial Transition - Colin Murray Parkes -- Processes of Adaptation to Change -- The Social Distribution of Sentiments - Lindsay Prior -- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Bereavement - Shirley Firth -- I Desperately Needed to See My Son - Sheila Awooner-Renner -- A Single Parent Confronting the Loss of an Only Child - Evelyn Gillis -- Epitaph of Libby Dickenson, 1798-1818 - Anonymous -- Care of the Suddenly Bereaved - D W Yates, G Ellison and S McGuiness -- Pregnancy Loss and the Death of a Baby - Nancy Kohner -- Parents' Choices -- When a Baby Dies - Gavin Fairbairn -- A Father's View -- Gay and Lesbian Bereavement - Dudley Cave -- The Grief That Does Not Speak - Maureen Oswin -- Personal and Medical Memories from Hillsborough - Tom Heller -- Ruth - Lesley Moreland -- Death by Murder -- Essays upon Epitaphs - William Wordsworth -- December - Douglas Dunn.