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| As We Think About Death | |
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| What is Death? | |
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| the Death System | |
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| Chapter Dying | |
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| Hospice and Palliative Care | |
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| End-of-Life Issues and Decisions | |
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| Suicide | |
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| Violent Death: Murder, Terrorism, Genocide, Disaster, and Accident | |
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| Euthanasia, Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die | |
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| As We Think About Death | |
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| A History of Death? | |
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| Not Thinking About Death: A Failed Experiment | |
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| Your Self-Inventory of Attitudes, Beliefs, and Feelings | |
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| Some Answers - and the Questions They Raise | |
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| Man is Mortal: But What Does That Have to DO With Me? | |
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| Anxiety, Denial, and Acceptance: Three Core Concepts | |
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| Studies and Theories of Death Anxiety | |
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| Major Findings From Self-Reports of Death Anxiety | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives on Death Anxiety | |
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| Accepting and Denying Death | |
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| What is Death? | |
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| Ideas About the Nature and Meaning of Death | |
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| Death As Observed, Proclaimed, and Imagined | |
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| Biomedical Approaches to the Definition of Death | |
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| Event Versus State | |
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| What Does Death Mean? | |
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| Interpretations of the Death State | |
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| Conditions That Resemble Death | |
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| Death As A Person | |
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| Conditions That Death Resembles | |
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| The Undead | |
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| Death As An Agent of Personal, Political, and Social | |
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| The Death System | |
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| A World Without Death | |
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| Basic Characteristics of the Death System | |
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| Components of the Death System | |
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| Functions of the Death System | |
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| Disasters and the Death System | |
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| How Our Death System Has Been Changing-And the "Deathniks" Who Are Making A Difference | |
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| Causes of Death: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow | |
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| Basic Terms and Concepts | |
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| Chapter Dying | |
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| The Moment of Death: Is It Vanishing? | |
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| What Is Dying, and When Does It Begin? | |
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| Trajectories of Dying: From Beginning to End | |
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| Guarded Feelings, Subtle Communications | |
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| Individuality and Universality In the Experience of Dying | |
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| Theoretical Models of the Dying Process | |
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| Hospice and Palliative Care | |
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| Hospice: A New Flowering From Ancient Roots | |
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| Standards of Care For the Terminally Ill | |
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| Hospice In Action | |
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| Relief of Pain and Suffering | |
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| Hospice Access, Decision Making, and Challenges | |
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| Dame Cicely Saunder's Reflections On Hospice | |
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| End-of-Life Issues and Decisions | |
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| From Description to Decision Making | |
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| Who Should Participate In End-Of-Life Decisions? | |
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| The Living Will and Its Impact | |
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| Right-To-Die Decisions That We Can Make | |
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| A Right Not to Die? the Cryonics Alternative | |
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| Organ Donation | |
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| Funeral-Related Decisions | |
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| Suicide | |
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| What Do the Statistics Tell Us? | |
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| Four Problem Areas | |
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| Some Cultural Meanings of Suicide | |
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| A Powerful Sociological Theory of Suicide | |
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| Some Individual Meanings of Suicide | |
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| Facts and Myths About Suicide | |
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| Suicide Prevention | |
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| Emerging Issues and Challenges | |
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| Violent Death: Murder, Terrorism, Genocide, Disaster, and Accident | |
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| Murder | |
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| Terrorism | |
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| 9/11/01 and Its Consequences | |
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| Accident and Disaster | |
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| Euthanasia, Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die | |
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| "I Swear By Appollo the Physician": What Happened to the Hippocratic Oath? | |
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| Key Terms and Concepts | |
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| Our Changing Attitudes Toward A Right to Die | |
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| The Right-To-Die Dilemma: Case Examples | |