Death and dying sourcebook
Subtitle: basic consumer health information about end-of-life care and related perspectives and ethical issues, including end-of-life symptoms and treatments, pain management, quality-of-life concerns, the use of life support, patients' rights and privacy issues, advance directives, physician-assisted suicide, caregiving, organ and tissue donation, autopsies, funeral arrangements, and grief ; along with statistical data, information about the leading causes of death, a glossary, and directories of support groups and other resources
By: edited by Joyce Brennfleck Shannon.
Contributors: Shannon, Joyce Brennfleck.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Health reference series; Health reference series (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Omnigraphics
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Detroit, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 653
Subjects: Death.; Terminal care.; Terminal Care -- Resource Guides.; Advance Directives -- Resource Guides.; Attitude to Death -- Resource Guides.; Bereavement -- Resource Guides.; Death -- Resource Guides.; Hospices -- Resource Guides.
Genres: Resource Guides.
Description: "Provides basic consumer health information about end-of-life care and related issues. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.