Death, dying, transcending

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Death, dying, transcending

edited by Richard A. Kalish

(Perspectives on death and dying series, 3)

Baywood Pub. Co., c1980

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Includes bibliographical references

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Description

Every living thing must die, but only human beings know it. This knowledge can bring to the living, anxiety and despair or new richness and meaning. This volume explores the problems and possibilities of coping with this universal experience.

Table of Contents

Preface PART ONE The Dying Process So? Ronald Koenig The Onset of the Dying Process Richard A. Kalish The Dying Patient and the Double-Bind Hypothesis Richard C. Erickson and Bobbie J. Hyerstay Clinical Research and the Stages of Dying Richard Schulz and David Aderman Slow Death: One Survivor's Experience Dorothy Paulay Psychosocial Analysis of Cancer Deaths Avery D. Weisman and J. William Worden PART TWO Meanings of Death What Is the Meaning of Death to the Dying Person and His Survivors? Eli Marcovitz Differing Bereavements: Suicide, Natural, and Accidental Death Arlene Sheskin and Samuel E. Wallace Social Organization and Death Vanderlyn R. Pine The Street Corner: A Laboratory for the Study of Life-Threatening Behavior Robert Kastenbaum and Laura Briscoe The Last Strand: Remnants of Engagement in the Later Years Victor W. Marshall Old People Talk About: The Right to DieShura Saul and Sidney R. Saul PART THREE Transcending Death The Experience of Dying from Falls Russell Noyes, Jr. and Roy Kletti On Death and the Continuity of Life: A Psychohistorical Perspective Robert Jay Lifton The Coffin J.H.

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