| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| |
| Medicalized Dying | |
| |
| |
| |
| From "Tame Death" to "Medicalized Death" | |
| |
| |
| Tame Death | |
| |
| |
| Medicalized Dying | |
| |
| |
| The Triumph of Death in the Medicalization of It | |
| |
| |
| |
| In Praise of Medicine - and What Went Wrong on the Way to "Medicalization" | |
| |
| |
| In Praise of Medicine | |
| |
| |
| From Hippocrates to Bacon to Medicalization | |
| |
| |
| |
| Challenging "Medicalization": Patient Rights, "Natural Death," and Hospice | |
| |
| |
| Bioethics and the Movement for Patient Rights | |
| |
| |
| The Death Awareness Movement and "Natural" Death | |
| |
| |
| The Hospice Movement | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Silence and Surrender of the Church | |
| |
| |
| |
| Ars Moriendi | |
| |
| |
| |
| Death and the Art of Dying in the Fifteenth Century | |
| |
| |
| The Black Death and Plague | |
| |
| |
| The "Great Schism" in the Western Church | |
| |
| |
| Jean Charlier Gerson and His Pastoral Handbook at Constance | |
| |
| |
| Ars Moriendi | |
| |
| |
| |
| The "Commendacion of Death" | |
| |
| |
| Should We Commend the "Commendacion" of Death? | |
| |
| |
| |
| The "Temptacions" and the Virtues | |
| |
| |
| The Temptation to Lose Faith | |
| |
| |
| The Virtue of Faith | |
| |
| |
| The Temptation to Despair | |
| |
| |
| The Virtue of Hope | |
| |
| |
| The Temptation to Impatience | |
| |
| |
| The Virtues of Love and Patience | |
| |
| |
| The Temptation to Pride | |
| |
| |
| The Virtue of Humility | |
| |
| |
| The Temptation to Avarice | |
| |
| |
| The Virtue of "Letting Go" | |
| |
| |
| The Death of Moriens | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Temptations and the Virtues: An Assessment | |
| |
| |
| The Deathbed Drama | |
| |
| |
| The Virtues | |
| |
| |
| |
| "Interrogaciones," "Instruccions," and Prayers | |
| |
| |
| The "Interrogaciones" | |
| |
| |
| The "Interrogaciones": An Assessment | |
| |
| |
| The "Instruccion": Christ as Paradigm | |
| |
| |
| The "Instruccion": An Assessment | |
| |
| |
| An "Instruccion" to Friends and Caregivers | |
| |
| |
| An "Instruccion" to Friends and Caregivers: An Assessment | |
| |
| |
| Prayers | |
| |
| |
| Prayers: An Assessment | |
| |
| |
| |
| Faith and Faithfulness in the Face of Death: Toward a Contemporary Ars Moriendi | |
| |
| |
| |
| A "Commendacion" of Life | |
| |
| |
| The Resurrection | |
| |
| |
| Israel's Hope and Consolation | |
| |
| |
| The Resurrection of Jesus | |
| |
| |
| The Hope of the Church | |
| |
| |
| Life Is Good - but Not the Greatest Good | |
| |
| |
| |
| The "Instruccion": Remember and Follow Jesus | |
| |
| |
| Cautions | |
| |
| |
| Gethsemane | |
| |
| |
| No Gethsemane: The Difference John Makes | |
| |
| |
| The Words from the Cross | |
| |
| |
| Remembering the Caregivers | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Virtues for Dying Well | |
| |
| |
| Faith | |
| |
| |
| Hope | |
| |
| |
| Love | |
| |
| |
| Patience | |
| |
| |
| Humility | |
| |
| |
| Letting Go/Serenity/Generosity | |
| |
| |
| Courage | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Practices of Christian Community and the Practices of Dying Well and Caring Well for the Dying | |
| |
| |
| |
| Gathering on the Lord's Day | |
| |
| |
| The Practice of Gathering | |
| |
| |
| The Practice of Reading Scripture Together | |
| |
| |
| The Practice of Prayer | |
| |
| |
| The Practice of the Sacraments | |
| |
| |
| |
| Some Practices Old and New | |
| |
| |
| The Practices of Mourning and Comforting | |
| |
| |
| The Practice of Funerals | |
| |
| |
| The Practice of Remembering Saints | |
| |
| |
| The Practice of Catechesis | |
| |
| |
| The Practice of Advance Directives | |
| |
| |
| The Practice of Discourse and Discernment | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Practice of Care | |
| |
| |
| |
| Last Words | |
| |
| |
| Subject and Name Index | |
| |
| |
| Scripture Index | |