Contents Foreword Preface:A Journey into the Realm of Death and Growth1Introduction2Why Is It So Hard to Die?THE Organizational Context of dying Hans O. Mauksch Death in the first person Anonymous3 Death Through Some Other Windows dying among Alaskan Indians: A matter of choice Murray L. TreleaseThe Jewish view of death: Guidelines for dying Zachary I. Heller The Jewish view of death: Guidelines for mourning Audrey Gordon.The death that ends death in hinduism and buddhism Bruce Long 4 Dying Is Easy, But Living Is Hard Living until death: A program of service and research for the terminally Ill.Raymond G. Carey Funerals: A time for grief and growth. Roy Nichols and lane Nichols. A mother mourns and grows. Edith Mize One woman's death - A victory and a triumph Dorothy Pitkin 5 Death and Growth: Unlikely Partners? Death as part of my own personal life lisabeth Kübler-Ross Letter to Elisabeth: dedicated to Carol. Bal Mount Louie Shirley Holzer Jeffrey For my wife Wanda: Love will never go away Orville Kelly 6 Death: The Final Stage of Growth Dying as the last stage of growth Mwalimu Imara Omego Resources Index

A collection of essays giving different perspectives on death and dying, including the views of other cultures on the subject and the thoughts of doctors, nurses, ministers, terminally ill persons and their families

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