Chapter 1: Why Study Death and Dying?
Chapter 2: What Does it Mean to Die?
Chapter 3: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Death
Chapter 4: The American Health Care System
Chapter 5: Bioethics, Euthanasia, and Physician-assisted Suicide
Chapter 6: Terminal Diseases and Conditions
Chapter 7: Processes of Dying
Chapter 8: End of Life Issues
Chapter 9: Death of a Loved One
Chapter 10: Grief and the Process of Grieving
Chapter 11: Death-Related Tasks and Decisions
Chapter 12: The Funeral Business and Disposing of the Body
Chapter 13: How Children and Adolescents View Death
Chapter 14: How Adults See and Represent Death
Chapter 15: Suicide and Death by Violence
Chapter 16: After Life, Then What?
Chapter 17: Death Education