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| Preface | |
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| Correlation Guide | |
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| Topic Guide | |
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| Internet References | |
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| Issues in Dying and Death | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Grief in the Age of Facebook | |
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| Death, Dying, and the Dead in Popular Culture | |
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| How Much Is More Life Worth? | |
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| Brain Death Guidelines Vary at Top US Neurological Hospitals | |
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| Criteria for a Good Death | |
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| Dying and Death across the Life Cycle | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Death in Disney Films: Implications for Children’s Understanding of Death | |
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| Saying Goodbye | |
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| Helping Military Kids Cope with Traumatic Death | |
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| Needs of Elderly Patients in Palliative Care | |
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| Altered States: What I’ve Learned about Death & Disability | |
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| The Dying Process | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Dying on the Streets: Homeless Persons’ Concerns and Desires about End-of-Life Care | |
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| End-of-Life Care around the World: Achievements to Date and Challenges Remaining | |
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| Are They Hallucinations or Are They Real? The Spirituality of Deathbed and Near-Death Visions | |
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| A Spreading Appreciation for the Benefits of Hospice Care | |
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| When Death Strikes without Warning | |
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| Suicide | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Suicide Rates in the World: 1950–2004 | |
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| On "Intention" in the Definition of Suicide | |
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| Ethical, Legal, and Practical Issues in the Control and Regulation of Suicide Promotion and Assistance over the Internet | |
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| A Search for Death: How the Internet Is Used as a Suicide Cookbook | |
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| Gender and Suicide Risk: The Role of Wound Site | |
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| Animals and Death | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Treat People Like Dogs | |
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| When a Cherished Pet Dies, New York-Presbyterian, The University Hospitals of Columbia and Cornell, 2006 | |
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| Book Profiles Furry Angel of Death: Oscar the Cat | |
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| Veterinary Hospice: Ways to Nurture Our Pets at the End of Life | |
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| Ethical Issues Regarding Dying and Death | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| What Living Wills Won’t Do: The Limits of Autonomy | |
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| The Comfort Connection | |
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| Ethics and Life’s Ending: An Exchange | |
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| When Students Kill Themselves, Colleges May Get the Blame | |
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| Funerals | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| The Contemporary American Funeral | |
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| How Different Religions Pay Their Final Respects | |
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| Green Graveyards-A Natural Way to Go | |
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| Social Workers’ Final Act of Service: Respectful Burial Arrangements for Indigent, Unclaimed, and Unidentified People | |
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| Bereavement | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| The Grieving Process | |
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| Disenfranchised Grief | |
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| Enhancing the Concept of Disenfranchised Grief | |
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| The Increasing Prevalence of Complicated Mourning: The Onslaught Is Just Beginning | |
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| Counseling with Children in Contemporary Society | |
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| A Grim Fight for ‘Proper Burial,’ | |
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| Parents and the Death of a Child, Sangeeta Singg | |
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| Coping with the Loss of Loved Ones, Maurizio Pompili | |
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| Test-Your-Knowledge Form | |
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| Article Rating Form | |