Death, dying, and bereavement

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Part 1 Life and death

Death in Staithes / David Clark

Death denied / Philippe Ariès

death in the news: the public invigilation of private emotion / Tony Walter, Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering

Approaches to death in Hindu and Sikh communities in Britain / Shirley Firth

Demographic change and the experience of dying / Clive Seale

Health policy and services for dying people and their carers / Christina R. Victor

Sudden death from suicide / Stella Ridley

The dream / T.R.S

the good death? / Mary Bradbury

Little Henry: or, God will take care of me / H.M. Benson

Death be not proud / John Donne

Aubade / Philip Larkin

Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas

The Prophet / Kahlil Gibran

Doctor's mask on pain / Jane Martin

Spiritual care of dying people / Alyson Peberdy

Death and the meaning of life / Leo Tolstoy. Part 2 Caring for dying people

Extending specialist palliative care to all? / David Field and Julia Addington-Hall

The case for palliative care in residential and nursing homes / Moyra Sidell, Jeanne Samson Katz and Carol Komaromy

Complementary medicine

its place in the care of dying people / Patrick C. Pietroni

speaking out / Sarah Palmer

Caring for mother

plus postscript / Susan Leifer

Living with MS / Richard Were

Saturday Times column 3.10.98 / John Diamond

The alphabet / Jean-Dominique Bauby

Communication in palliative care; a practical guide / Robert Buckman

Saturday Times column 23.1.99 / John Diamond

Communicating with dying children / Dorothy Judd

Jewish perspectives on death, dying and bereavement / Jeanne Samson Katz

The Syllabus / Mitch Albom

Dying trajectories, the organization of work and expectations of dying / Anselm Strauss

Sitting it out / Elizabeth Dean. A very easy death / simone de Beauvoit

Teach me to hear mermaids singing / Clare Vaughan

Part 3 dilemmas and decisions at the end of life

Learning the hard way / Clare Williams

Somebody loves me / Anthony Masters

The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy

Intimacy and terminal care / Judy Gilley

The use of deception in nursing / Kevin Teasdale and Gerry Kent

Do-not-resuscitate decisions / Johannes J.M. van Delden

The 'blue-spotted' patient: do-not-resuscitate decisions in the acute surgical wards of an English district general hospital / Basiro Davey

The main tradition / Fiona Randall and R.S. Downie

Right to die or duty to live? The problem of euthanasia / William Grey

Euthanasia and assisted suicide: seven reasons why they should not be legalized / Luke Gormally

A student's story / Anonymous. Betting your life: an argument against certain advance directives / Christopher James Ryan

Palliative care and the doctrine of double effect / Stephen wilkinson

Palliative care and the ethics of resource allocation / Eve Garrard

On withholding nutrition and hydration in the terminally ill: has palliative medicine gone to far? / Gillian M. Craig

On withholding nutrition and hydration in the terminally ill: has palliative medicine gone too far? a reply / R.J. Dunlop, J.E. Ellershaw, M.J. Baines, N. Sykes and C.M. Saunders

Part 4 bereavement: private grief, collective responsibility

Bereavement as a psychosocial transitioin: processes of adaptation to change / Colin Murray Parkes

The social distribution of sentiments / Lindsay Prior

Cross-cultural perspectives on bereavement / Shirley Firth

I desperately needed to see my son / Sheila Awoonor-Renner. A single parent confronting the loss of an only child / Evelyn Gillis

Epitaph of Libby Dickinson, 1798-1818 / Anonymous

Pregnancy loss and the death of a baby: parents' choices / Nancy Kohner

When a baby dies

a father's view / Gavin Fairbairn

Gay and lesbian bereavement / Dudley Cave

The grief that does not speak / Maureen Oswin

Personal and medical memories from Hillsborough / Tom Heller

Ruth: death by murder / Lesley Moreland

Essays upon epitaphs / William Wordsworth

December / Douglas dunn