"Tales of commerce with the dead. Reports of strange happenings in the borderlands between the living and the who-knows-what. Concerns as ancient as humankind. Robert ...

New edition of a text which examines our relationship to death by drawing upon scholarship and research as well as on the words of people who have found themselves in the ...

A broad range of information is offered in some 130 articles, though the editors make no claims of comprehensiveness. The contributions are concise and straightforward without ...

In this extensively revised edition, Dr. Kastenbaum examines and expands upon issues of dying and the ways in which conceptions of death are shaped and reshaped. Includes new ...

This volume explores how hospice care has been taking root throughout much of the world and illustrates how people are finding ways to shape hospice care to the particular ...

Essays discuss the cost-effectiveness of hospices, hospice patients, the design of the national study, and the medical and social aspects of hospice care.