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

Journal of Comparative Family Studies;  January 1, 2004 ;     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 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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...

The semantics of death and dying: Metaphor and mortality

et Cetera;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ 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...

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

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  March 1, 1999 ;     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 impact on the family therapist of a focus on death, dying, and...

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ 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...

Encyclopedia of Death and Dying.(Book Review)

Folklore;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ 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...

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

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ 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...

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

Nursing Education Perspectives;  July 1, 2004 ;     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 ;     700+ 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...

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

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 31, 1996 ;     700+ 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, ...

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...

Books examine dying, death and those left behind [As I lay dying:...

Anglican Journal;  April 1, 2003 ;     616 words ...Books examine dying, death and those left behind GORDON...inner thoughts about living and dying as he lay at the threshold of death. What does it mean to die? What...realities he has known around death and dying involving close and estranged...

At Peace With Dying; Va. Forum Looks at Death as a Spiritual Journey

The Washington Post;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......the speakers discuss death and dying, he scribbles notes...among Americans toward death and dying and "a growing awareness...people instead to see death as the "final phase of...development for both the dying person and their family...

Death and Dying among African Americans

Journal of the National Medical Association;  July 1, 2004 ;     492 words ...Death and Dying among African Americans James H. Carter...attitudes, values, and beliefs about death and dying; the role of the family and other support...complexity in the preface of his brief book, Death and Dying among African Americans, by suggesting...