A Dignified Ending challenges the idea that prolonging life by every means possible is the only reasonable response to a dire diagnosis or to intractable suffering. It uses true accounts to illustrate how people have choreographed their deaths, and it recommends that death with dignity laws include dementias and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Documenting a study of end-of-life experiences that included detailed conversations in home care settings, this book focuses on how participants lived their daily lives, understood their illnesses, coped with symptoms - especially pain - and searched for meaning or spiritual growth in their final months of life.
In the aftermath of suicide, friends and family face a long road of grief and reflection. Here, the author searches for the place of the spirit in the wake of suicide. He asks how one may live a spiritual life as a survivor, and addresses the way faith is permanently altered.
Emphasizes cultural factors that affect the adolescent coping with death. This book explores many conceptual frameworks, models, and ideas that have appeared on the scene such as: dual process model for understanding loss; ideas about assumptive worlds; and, debates about the benefit and harm of grief counseling with the normally bereaved.
Reflects on what is promising in working with the suicidal adolescent and provides information relevant to theory, practice, and intervention. This volume provides empirically based findings that can be easily translated for practical use by the clinician. It includes discussion of malpractice risk management, and an extensive list of references.
Is there life after death? Near death experiences—people coming back from the dead with tales from the other side—have become a worldwide phenomenon. In this book, Rev John Spooner combines expert research, gripping first hand testimony, analysis of scripture and accounts
Focus on the End of Life: Scientific and Social Issues
The study of ""the end of life"" has become a major focus on medicine, the social sciences, ethics, and religion. This volume brings together the various research on issues around death and dying, life's attributes as it nears death, planning and preparation for death, and care and intervention-related issues.
This book presents a thorough examination of the clinical practices that best serve patients and that also protect clinicians from malpractice claims. It uses numerous case examples and extensive references on suicide and actual malpractice cases t to present the key concepts involved in coping with the risks associated with suicidal patients.
This book presents a thorough examination of the clinical practices that best serve patients and that also protect clinicians from malpractice claims. It uses numerous case examples and extensive references on suicide and actual malpractice cases t to present the key concepts involved in coping with the risks associated with suicidal patients.
