The last dance : encountering death and dying / Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland.

Author/creator DeSpelder, Lynne Ann, 1944-
Other author Strickland, Albert Lee.
Format Book
Edition8th ed.
Publication InfoBoston : McGraw Hill Higher Education, ©2009.
Descriptionxxiv, 648 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Death--Psychological aspects. --Textbooks.
Death--Social aspects. --Textbooks.
Attitude to Death.
Death--Psychological aspects.
Death--Social aspects.

Contents 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.
Abstract The Last Dance offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of death and dying.Integrating the facing death: living with life-threatening illness, social, individual, emotional, and understanding the experience of loss.Funerals and body disposition.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 553-626) and indexes.
Issued in other formOnline version: DeSpelder, Lynne Ann, 1944- Last dance. 8th ed. Boston : McGraw Hill Higher Education, c2009
LCCN 2008344527
ISBN9780073405469 (alk. paper)
ISBN0073405469