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Seven dying Australians / edited by Allan Kellehear & David Ritchie.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bendigo, Vic. : St. Luke's Innovative Resources, 2003.Description: v, 131 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0958018804 :
Other title:
  • 7 dying Australians
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.937 21 K2917 2003
LOC classification:
  • R726.8 .S48 2003
Contents:
1. Fadia Saba. Trying to be normal: a teenager facing childhood cancer -- 2. Marion Miller. You just shed life: a nursing home resident talks about the future -- 3. Iain Ross Gardner. Not dying a victim: living with AIDS -- 4. Alexander Yettica. A new consciousness, a new urgency: an indigenous view of mortality -- 5. John Spura. Life for me hasn't changed: living with cancer -- 6. Keith Perera. Faith keeps me going: living with motor neurone disease -- 7. Sylvia Eriksson. Not afraid of death: a near-death experience -- David Ritchie. Listening and understanding.
Summary: Introduces us to seven different people, from different backgrounds, with different views. Their words serve to strip away the myths about death. Paradoxically, their stories of dying are full of life.
List(s) this item appears in: Death and Bereavement
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Includes bibliographical references p. 130-131.

1. Fadia Saba. Trying to be normal: a teenager facing childhood cancer -- 2. Marion Miller. You just shed life: a nursing home resident talks about the future -- 3. Iain Ross Gardner. Not dying a victim: living with AIDS -- 4. Alexander Yettica. A new consciousness, a new urgency: an indigenous view of mortality -- 5. John Spura. Life for me hasn't changed: living with cancer -- 6. Keith Perera. Faith keeps me going: living with motor neurone disease -- 7. Sylvia Eriksson. Not afraid of death: a near-death experience -- David Ritchie. Listening and understanding.

Introduces us to seven different people, from different backgrounds, with different views. Their words serve to strip away the myths about death. Paradoxically, their stories of dying are full of life.

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