DEATH+DYING,LIFE+LIVING [Paperback]

Practical and inspiring, Corr/Corr/Doka's DEATH & DYING, LIFE & LIVING, 9th EDITION, helps you learn how to navigate encounters with death, dying and bereavement. The authors emphasize ways that individuals and families can cope with life-threatening illness, loss, grief, funerals and other death-related topics -- including how to communicate constructively in the face of death. You'll learn about aided death, the COVID-19 pandemic, Alzheimer's disease and other life-altering conditions and prominent causes of death. You'll read personal stories and vignettes highlighting how death-related encounters, attitudes and practices are affected by cultural, religious and other real-life perspectives. You will also discover that you can gain important lessons about life and living from the study of death, dying and bereavement.Part I: LEARNING ABOUT DEATH, DYING AND BEREAVEMENT. 1. Education about Death, Dying, and Bereavement. Part II: DEATH. 2. Changing Encounters with Death. 3. Changing Attitudes toward Death. 4. Death-Related Practices and the American Death System. 5. Cultural Patterns and Death. Part III: DYING. 6. Coping with Dying. 7. Coping with Dying: How Individuals Can Help. 8. Coping with Dying: How Communities Can Help. Part IV: BEREAVEMENT 9. Coping with Loss and Grief. 10. Coping with Loss and Grief: How Individuals Can Help. 11. Coping with Loss and Grief: Funeral Practices and Other Ways Communities Can Help. PART V: DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES. 12. Children. 13. Adolescents. 14. Young and Middle-Aged Adults. 15. Older Adults. Part VI: LEGAL, CONCEPTUAL, AND MORAL ISSUES. 16. Legal Issues. 17. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 18. Aided Death: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Aid in Dying. 19. The Meaning and Place of Death in Life. Part VII: AN EXAMPLE OF A SPECIFIC DISEASE ENTITY. 20. Illustrating the Themes of This Book: Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. Epilogue: Calendar Date Gives Mom Reason to Contemplate Life. Appendix A. Selected Litlƒ)