Death

Ours is a death-denying society. But death is inevitable, and we must face the question of how to deal with it. Coming to terms with our own finiteness helps us discover life's true meaning.Why do we treat death as a taboo? What are the sources of our fears? How do we express our grief, and how do we accept the death of a person close to us? How can we prepare for our own death?Drawing on our own and other cultures' views of death and dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross provides some illuminating answers to these and other questions. She offers a spectrum of viewpoints, including those of ministers, rabbis, doctors, nurses, and sociologists, and the personal accounts of those near death and of their survivors.Once we come to terms with death as a part of human development, the author shows, death can provide us with a key to the meaning of human existence.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross M.D., is a psychiatrist and a world-renowned authority and counselor on death. Her works include On Death and Dying, AIDS, Questions and Answers on Death and Dying, and The Wheel of Life.

Contents

Foreword

Preface:
A Journey into the Realm of Death and Growth

1
Introduction

2
Why Is It So Hard to Die?

THE ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT OF DYING
Hans O. Mauksch

DEATH IN THE FIRST PERSON
Anonymous

3
Death Through Some Other Windows

DYING AMONG ALASKAN INDIANS: A MATTER OF CHOICE
Murray L. Trelease

THE JEWISH VIEW OF DEATH: GUIDELINES FOR DYING
Zachary I. Heller

THE JEWISH VIEW OF DEATH: GUIDELINES FOR MOURNING
Audrey Gordon

THE DEATH THAT ENDS DEATH IN HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM
J. Bruce Long

4
Dying Is Easy, But Living Is Hard

LIVING UNTIL DEATH: A PROGRAM OF SERVICE AND RESEARCH FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL
Raymond G. Carey

FUNERALS: A TIME FOR GRIEF AND GROWTH
Roy Nichols and lane Nichols

A MOTHER MOURNS AND GROWS
Edith Mize

ONE WOMAN'S DEATH -- A VICTORY AND A TRIUMPH
Dorothy Pitkin

5
Death and Growth: Unlikely Partners?

DEATH AS PART OF MY OWN PERSONAL LIFE
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

LETTER TO ELISABETH: DEDICATED TO CAROL
Bal Mount

LOUIE
Shirley Holzer Jeffrey

FOR MY WIFE WANDA: LOVE WILL NEVER GO AWAY
Orville Kelly

6
Death: The Final Stage of Growth

DYING AS THE LAST STAGE OF GROWTH
Mwalimu Imara

Omego
Resources
Index

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