Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abuse of the sick and infirm -- Alternative living -- Attitudes toward death, Teenage -- Autopsy -- Cremation -- Death, Unexpected and planned -- Death and dying, The business of -- Death and money -- Death and the family -- Death of a friend -- Death of a parent -- Doctors' perspectives -- Drug and alcohol abuse -- Dying, The process of -- Dying, The statistics of -- Elderly men, Aging of -- Elderly women, Aging of -- Ethnic rituals and death -- Fear of death -- Grieving, The process of -- Growing old in America -- Help and support -- Living Longer : living better? -- Loss of a pet -- Managing death -- Media's view, The -- Organ donation -- Planning for death -- Right to die, The -- Smoking and death -- Stages of death, The -- Teenage deaths -- Terminal diseases affecting youths -- Traditions and death -- Violent death.

Offers clear and concise information and covers the many issues, feelings, and processes that relate to death and dying.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi : Gale. Available via World Wide Web.

Mode of access: Internet.