Seven dying Australians
By: edited by Allan Kellehear & David Ritchie
Publisher: Innovative Resources
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Bendigo, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9780958018807
Subjects: Terminally ill; Death; Interviews
Description: Introduces us to seven different people, from different backgrounds, with different views. Their words serve to strip away the myths about death. Paradoxically, their stories of dying are full of life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-131).
Table of contents: title: 1. Fadia Saba. Trying to be normal: a teenager facing childhood cancer; title: 2. Marion Miller. You just shed life: a nursing home resident talks about the future; title: 3. Iain Ross Gardner. Not dying a victim: living with AIDS; title: 4. Alexander Yettica. A new consciousness, a new urgency: an indigenous view of mortality; title: 5. John Spura. Life for me hasn't changed: living with cancer; title: 6. Keith Perera. Faith keeps me going: living with motor neurone disease; title: 7. Sylvia Eriksson. Not afraid of death: a near-death experience; title: David Ritchie. Listening and understanding.