Northcott, Herbert C. and Donna M. Wilson, Dying and Death in Canada.

Journal of Comparative Family Studies;  January 1, 2004 ;   Parker, Marcie;   613 words ......2001, 189pp., $24.95 softcover. Dying and Death in Canada provides a thorough overview of all aspects of death and dying in Canada. The book is divided...such as expectations of dying and death, dying trajectories or life cycles and...

The semantics of death and dying: metaphor and mortality.

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics;  September 22, 1997 ;   Sexton, James;   787 words ......of the importance of keeping death and dying in one's consciousness. Being...the nature of our conception of death and dying, which neither he, nor other...much of the world's thinkers on death and dying, have not pursued his discovery...

Closing in on death? Reflections on research and researchers in the field...

Health Sociology Review;  December 1, 2007 ;   Hockey, Jenny;   787 words ......within the field of research on death and dying. In so doing, it explores reasons...science research activity around death and dying from the Second World War onwards...minimal personal experience of death, dying and bereavement. Increasing longevity...

Dying the Good Death: The Pilgrimage to Die in India's Holy City.(Review)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  March 1, 1999 ;   Firth, Shirley;   599 words ......understanding of death. The study is based on a home for the dying in Kashi - the Kashi...year 1990-1, 365 dying people came, with...members, believing that death in Kashi ensures...my own research (Dying, death, and bereavement...

The semantics of death and dying: Metaphor and mortality

et Cetera;  October 1, 1997 ;   Sexton, James;   787 words ......of the importance of keeping death and dying in one's consciousness. Being...the nature of our conception of death and dying, which neither he, nor other...much of the world's thinkers on death and dying, have not pursued his discovery...

Health educators' assessment of the course content of a proposed death and...

Research in Education;  November 1, 2000 ;   Imogie, Abigail O;   787 words ...The concept of death and dying is as old as the concept of birth...additional member of the family, death and dying connote the termination of life as...respectively. According to Leiper (1993) death and dying are removed from everyday experience...

The impact on the family therapist of a focus on death, dying, and...

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy;  October 1, 2003 ;   Becvar, Dorothy S;   787 words ......therapists who are choosing a focus on death, dying, and bereavement, this article...the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement was held (Vachon...choice to work in the domain of death, dying, and bereavement must be morbid...

Dying, Death, and Bereavement: A Challenge for Living (2nd ed.).

Nursing Education Perspectives;  July 1, 2004 ;   Yorke, Diane;   538 words ...Dying, Death, and Bereavement: A Challenge for Living...beyond the theoretical perspectives of death, dying, and bereavement presented in the first...issues related to communicating about death and dying and providing death education to children...

Veteran journalist Bill Moyers looks at death and dying in America.(Knight...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 7, 2000 ;   McCollum, Charlie;   787 words ......been often said that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. In our modern world, death and dying are strangers who go unacknowledged...boomers started talking about death and dying, the rest of us were not going...

Who let the Grim Reaper get his hands on the remote control? The politics...

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology;  April 1, 2006 ;   Shimanovsky, Michael;   787 words ......hypothesize that our attitudes about death and dying could be influenced by mass...religious and medical changes made dying and death gradually retreat from the...death from the survivors. With death medicalized, the dying can be shipped off to hospitals...

Encyclopedia of Death and Dying.(Book Review)

Folklore;  April 1, 2004 ;   Pocs, Eva;   787 words ...Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. Edited by Glennys Howarth and Oliver...turning increasingly to questions of death and dying, alongside a renewed interest in...interested in those questions of death and dying that most affect everyday life...

"End of Life" care; Medical specialists debate how to give death its due...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 31, 1996 ;   Lerner, Maura;   787 words ......treatment of the dying. `We don't do death well' Until now...have looked at the dying process as they do...doesn't mean preventing death, he hastens to add...figuring out how to make dying less painful, financially...the bedside of the dying patient, Rothman said. In other words, ...

On death and dying.(News)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  August 26, 2004 ;     49 words ...A FAMOUS author and expert on death and dying, has died. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, whose 1969 book On Death and Dying was a best-seller, died of natural...in Arizona. Her theory that the dying go through five stages -- denial...

Ohio Valley General Hospital's School of Nursing Tackles Death & Dying;...

PR Newswire;  February 22, 2002 ;     648 words ......TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Nurses deal with death and dying everyday at hospitals across...insight needed to better deal with death and dying as part of patient care. Typically...little had changed in dealing with death and dying since his nursing school days...

Dying-well movement changing how Americans deal with death.(Knight Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  June 5, 2000 ;   Harvey, Kay;   671 words ......conversation about dying. Pioneers in a new good-death movement say that...American sage Ram Dass, Death is not an outrage. Dying well fuels conversations about death rather than secrecy...without hastening death. Dying people rarely resort...