Empathy and compassion
Throughout its coverage, the text emphasizes the positive and necessary values of compassion, listening, and tolerance for the views of others.

Use of examples
A wide array of anecdotes, examples, songs, poems, and personal accounts included ensure that the content is relevant and concrete to students.

Multicultural perspective
The text examines sociocultural influences on the understanding of death, including coverage of theoretical perspectives, the agents of socialization, and the role of ethnic and cultural traditions as related to death attitudes and customs in modern, pluralistic societies.

Contents of the book include:

• Attitudes Toward Death: A Climate of Change
• Perspectives on Death: Cross-Cultural and Historical
• Learning about Death: The Influence of Sociocultural Forces
• Health Care Systems: Patients, StafF, and Institutions
• Facing Death: Living with Life-Threatening Illness
• Medical Ethics: Dying in a Technological Age
• Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss
• Last Rites: funerals and Body Disposition
• The Law and Death
• Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents
• Death in the Lives of Adults
• Suicide
• Risks of Death in the Modern World
• Beyond Death / After Life
• The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices

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