`This second edition, ...utilizes around half of the original text, of which a significant portion has been revised and updated. The remainder comprises new material... This book will stimulate thinking and challenge the personal views of both academics and those in practice. ¿[A] valuable tool for... those experienced professionals searching for a new angle on several key topics¿ [A]n excellent balance of theoretical contents and moving prose¿ [T]his book is directed towards all professionals working in health and social care. ¿ [and] students wishing to gain greater understanding' - Nurse Education Today

Introduction to Second Edition - Jeanne Katz
PART ONE: LIFE AND DEATH
Introduction - Jeanne Katz
Death in Staithes - David Clark
Death Denied - Philippe Ari[ac]es
Death in the News - Tony Walter, Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering
The Public Invigilation of Private Emotion
Approaches to Death in Hindu and Sikh Communities in Britain - Shirley Firth
Demographic Change and the Experience of Dying - Clive Seale
Health Policy and Services for Dying People and Their Careers - Christina R Victor
Sudden Death from Suicide - Stella Ridley
The Dream - T R S
The Good Death? - Mary Bradbury
Little Henry; or, God Will Take Care of Me - H M Benson
Death Be Not Proud - John Donne
Aubade - Philip Larkin
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas
The Prophet - Kahil Gibran
Doctor¿s Mask on Pain - Jane Martin
Spiritual Care of Dying People - Alyson Peberdy
Death and the Meaning of Life - Leo Tolstoy
PART TWO: CARING FOR DYING PEOPLE
Introduction - Jeanne Katz
Extending Specialist Palliative Care to All? - David Field and Julia Addington-Hall
The Case for Palliative Care in Residential and Nursing Homes - Moyral Sidell, Jeanne Katz and Carol Komaromy
Complementary Medicine - Patrick C Pietroni
Its Place in the Care of Dying People
Speaking Out - Sarah Palmer
Caring for Mother - Susan Leifer
Plus Postscript
Living with MS - Richard Were
Saturday Times Column 3.10.98 - John Diamond
The Alphabet - Jean-Dominique Bauby
Communication in Palliative Care - Robert Buckman
A Practical Guide
Saturday Times Column 23.1.99 - John Diamond
Communicating with Dying Children - Dorothy Judd
Jewish Perspectives on Death, Dying and Bereavement - Jeanne Samson Katz
The Syllabus - Mitch Albom
Dying Trajectories, the Organization of Work and Expectations of Dying - Anselm Strauss
Sitting It Out - Elizabeth Dean
A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir
Teach Me to Hear Mermaids Singing - Clare Vaughan
PART THREE: DILEMMAS AND DECISIONS AT THE END OF LIFE
Introduction - Jeanne Katz
Learning the Hard Way - Clare Williams
Somebody Loves Me - Anthony Masters
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
Intimacy and Terminal Care - Judy Gilley
The Use of Deception in Nursing - Kevin Teasdale and Gerry Kent
Do-Not-Resusciate Decisions - Johannes J M van Delden
The ¿Blue-Spotted¿ Patient - Basiro Davey
Do-not-resuscitate decisions in the acute surgical wards of a district general hospital.
The Main Tradition - Fiona Randall and R S Downie
Right to Die or Duty to Live? - William Grey
The Problem of Euthanasia
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - Luke Gormally
Seven Reasons Why They Should Not be Legalized
A Student¿s Story - Anonymous
Betting Your Life - Christopher James Ryan
An Argument against Certain Advance Directives
Palliative Care and the Doctrine of Double Effect - Stephen Wilkinson
Palliative Care and the Ethics of Resource Allocation - Eve Gerrard
On Withholding Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill - Gillian M Craig
Has Palliative Care Medicine Gone Too Far?
On Withholding Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill - R J Dunlop, J E Ellershaw, M J Baines, N Sykes and C M Saunders
Has Palliative Medicine Gone Too Far? A Reply
PART FOUR: BEREAVEMENT: PRIVATE GRIEF, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Introduction - Jeanne Katz
Bereavement as a Psychosocial Transition - Colin Murray Parkes
Processes of Adaptation to Change
The Social Distribution of Sentiments - Lindsay Prior
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Bereavement - Shirley Firth
I Desperately Needed to See My Son - Sheila Awooner-Renner
A Single Parent Confronting the Loss of an Only Child - Evelyn Gillis
Epitaph of Libby Dickenson, 1798-1818 - Anonymous
Care of the Suddenly Bereaved - D W Yates, G Ellison and S McGuiness
Pregnancy Loss and the Death of a Baby - Nancy Kohner
Parents¿ Choices
When a Baby Dies - Gavin Fairbairn
A Father¿s View
Gay and Lesbian Bereavement - Dudley Cave
The Grief That Does Not Speak - Maureen Oswin
Personal and Medical Memories from Hillsborough - Tom Heller
Ruth - Lesley Moreland
Death by Murder
Essays upon Epitaphs - William Wordsworth
December - Douglas Dunn