TY - BOOK AU - DeSpelder,Lynne Ann AU - Strickland,Lynne Ann TI - The last dance: encountering death and dying SN - 9780073405469 U1 - 155.9 PY - 2009/// CY - New York : PB - The McGraw Hill companies, KW - Death KW - Psychological aspect KW - Social aspect N1 - Includes bibliographical reference and index; Chapter 1. Attitude toward death : a climate of change -- Chapter 2. Learning about : The influence of sociocultural forces -- Chapter 3. Perspective on death : cultural and historical -- Chapter 4. Death systems : mortality and society -- Chapter 5. Health care : patients, staff, and institutions -- Chapter 6. End of life issues and decisions -- Chapter Chapter 7. Facing death : living with life-threating illness -- Chapter 8. Last rites : funerals and body disposition -- Chapter 9. Survivors : understanding the experience of loss --Chapter 10. Death in the lives of children and adolescents -- Chapter 11. Death in the lives of adults -- Chapter 12. Suicide --Chapter 13. Threats of horrendous death -- Chapter 14. Beyond death / after life -- Chapter 15. The path ahead : personal and social choices ER -