The truth about death and dying

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

Record details

ISBN: 9781438125817 (electronic book)
ISBN: 9780816076314 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0816076316 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic
electronic resource
access
remote
1 online resource (xiv, 224 p.) : ill.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: New York : Facts On File, c2009.

General Note:	Description based on print version record.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi : Gale. Available via World Wide Web.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.