This final volume of ""Death and Bereavement Around the World""
reflects on some major themes: death and after-life, religion and
spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches, cultural
variations, suicide, and other issues. The first few chapters
describe progress in end-of-life care, including some new tools to
evaluate hospice care (chapter 1); what children know, when they
know it, and how parents can respond to questions, with some
guidelines for support by schools (chapter 2); the importance of
ritual (chapter 3); and, gender differences in death customs around
the world (chapter 4).The transcript of a 1997 interview of John
(Jack) Morgan by Pittu Laungani is presented as chapter 5. The
following chapters discuss death systems and suicide (chapter 6);
HIV/AIDS, including the role of cultural and economic factors in
the spread of the disease (chapter 7); and grief and bereavement in
the developing world, taking the AIDS pandemic as a specific
challenge (chapter 8). Chapter 9 covers issues related to dying and
death in Romania. In chapter 10 the focus is on the various
functions and uses of names in a cross-cultural context. Roadside
memorials as a pivotal healing strategy are the topic of chapter
11. Chapters 12 and 13 focus on spiritual experience with loss.The
final chapter presents some conclusions, and in the Epilogue, Mary
Ann Morgan honors the life, career, dying, death, and achievements
of John (Jack) Morgan. The 'Final Word' includes the words of Pittu
Laungani, from a book published just weeks before his death in
February 2007.This work is for anyone interested in or working in
death and bereavement issues, particularly academics, educators,
librarians, chaplains, clergy, funeral service directors, hospice
care providers and volunteers, palliative care providers, nurses,
immigration officers, psychologists, social workers,
psychotherapists, and counselors, especially bereavement
counselors.
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