ISBN:
9781351866903
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (720 pages)
Edition:
12th ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Kastenbaum, Robert Death, Society, and Human Experience
DDC:
306.9
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1 As We Think about Death -- A History of Death -- Not Thinking about Death: A Failed Experiment -- Your Self-Inventory of Attitudes, Beliefs, and Feelings -- Some Answers-and the Questions They RaiseM -- Man is Mortal: But What Does That Have to Do with Me? -- Anxiety, Denial, and Acceptance: Three Core Concepts -- Studies and Theories of Death Anxiety -- Major Findings From Self-Reports of Death Anxiety -- Theoretical Perspectives on Death Anxiety -- Accepting and Denying Death -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 2 What is Death? What Does Death Mean? -- Ideas About the Nature and Meaning of Death -- Death as Observed, Proclaimed, and Imagined -- Biomedical Approaches to the Definition of Death -- Event Versus State -- Interpretations of the Death State -- Conditions That Resemble Death -- Death as a Person -- Conditions That Death Resembles -- The Undead -- Death as an Agent of Personal, Political, and Social Change -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 3 Denial or Adaptation: the Death System -- A World Without Death -- Basic Characteristics of the Death System -- Components of the Death System -- Functions of the Death System -- Disasters and the Death System -- How our Death System Has Been Changing-and the "Deathniks" Who are Making a Difference -- Causes of Death: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow -- Basic Terms and Concepts -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 4 Dying: Transition from Life -- "Dying": Primped and Medicalized -- The Moment of Death: Is it Vanishing? -- What Is Dying, and When Does it Begin? -- Trajectories of Dying: From Beginning to End -- Guarded Feelings, Subtle Communications -- Individuality and Universality in the Experience of Dying
Abstract:
Theoretical Models of the Dying Process -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 5 Hospice and Palliative Care -- Hospice: A New Flowering from Ancient Roots -- Standards of Care for the Terminally Ill -- The Hospice in Action -- Relief of Pain and Suffering -- Hospice Access, Decision Making, and Challenges -- Dame Cicely Saunders's Reflections on Hospice -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 6 End-of-Life Issues and Decisions -- From Description to Decision Making -- Who Should Participate in End-of-Life Decisions? -- The Living Will and Its Impact -- Right-to-Die Decisions That We Can Make -- A Right Not To Die? The Cryonics Alternative -- Organ Donation -- Funeral-Related Decisions -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 7 Suicide -- What Do the Statistics Tell Us? -- What About Suicide Attempts? -- Four Problem Areas -- Some Cultural Meanings of Suicide -- A Powerful Sociological Theory of Suicide -- Some Individual Meanings of Suicide -- Facts and Myths about Suicide -- Suicide Prevention -- Emerging Issues and Challenges -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 8 Violent Death: Murder, Terrorism, Genocide, Disaster, and Accident -- Murder -- Terrorism -- 9/11 and Its Consequences -- Accident and Disaster -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 9 Euthanasia, Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die -- "I Swear by Apollo the Healer": What Happened to the Hippocratic Oath? -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Our Changing Attitudes Toward a Right to Die -- The Right-to-Die Dilemma: Case Examples -- Terri Schiavo: Who Decides? -- A Slippery Slope or the Power of Hope: The Case of Jahi McMath -- Dr. Kevorkian and the Assisted-Suicide Movement -- Assisted Death in the United States -- Induced Abortion -- Summary -- Glossary
Abstract:
For Further Thought... -- References -- 10 Death in the World of Childhood -- Respecting the Child's Concern and Curiosity -- Adult Assumptions about Children and Death -- Children Do Think about Death -- Research Case Histories -- Concepts and Fears: Developing Through Experience -- How Do Children Cope with Bereavement? -- The Dying Child -- Sharing the Child's Death Concerns: A Few Guidelines -- The "Right" to Decide: Should the Child's Voice be Heard? -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 11 Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning -- Some Responses to Loss -- Defining Our Terms: Bereavement, Grief, Mourning -- Cultural Variations in Mourning -- What Kind of Grief? -- Theories of Grief -- How do People Recover from Grief? -- Bereavement in Later Life -- Are Bereaved People at Higher Risk for Death? -- How Well Do We Support the Bereaved? -- Meaningful Help for Bereaved People -- Widows in Third World Nations -- On the Future of Grieving and Mourning -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 12 The Funeral Process -- Some Responses to the Dead -- What Do Funerals Mean to Us? -- From Dead Body to Living Memory: A Process Approach -- Making Death "Legal" -- What Does the Funeral Process Accomplish? -- Memories of Our People: Cemeteries in the United States -- The Place of the Dead in Society: Yesterday and Today -- The Funeral Director's Perspective -- Improving the Funeral Process -- Spontaneous Memorialization in Response to Violent Death -- Integrity and Abuse in the Funeral and Memorial Process -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 13 Do We Survive Death? -- Concept of Survival in Historical Perspective -- Heavens and Hells -- The Desert Religions and Their One God -- What Other People Believe Today -- Does Survival Have to be Proved-And, If So, How?
Abstract:
When Spiritism Was in Flower -- Near-Death Experiences: Evidence for Survival? -- Should We Survive Death? -- But What Kind of Survival? -- Assisted and Symbolic Survival -- The Suicide-Survival Connection -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 14 How Can We Help? Caregiving and Death Education -- "Compassionate Fatigue": Burnout and the Health-Care Provider -- Death Educators and Counselors: The "Border Patrol" -- Death Education and Counseling: The Current Scene -- Counseling and the Counselors -- How We All Can Help -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 15 Good Life, Good Death? Trying to Make Sense of It All -- The Space between Bad and Good Deaths -- A Father Dies: A Mission Begins -- A Shift in the Meaning of Life and Death? -- Good Death and the State of End-of-Life Care -- Are we Live or on Tape? The Life-and-Death Challenges of Virtual Reality -- Utopia: A Better Death in a Better Place? -- Religious Understandings of a Good Death -- "The Good Death": Fantasy or Reality? -- Extinction: Death of Life or Death of Death? -- From Good Life to Good Death: A Personal Statement -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- Photo Credits -- Index
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