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Books on: terminally ill and good death

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A Good Death: Taking More Control at the End of Your Life

Book by T. Patrick Hill, David Shirley; Addison-Wesley, 1992

Subjects:

Death--Psychological Aspects, Terminal Care

Collections: Entire Library

...Prologue A good death does honor...never seen ill, had on...way that terminally ill patients...make the terminally ill person as...possible as death approached...study of death and dying...care of the terminally ill were placed...
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Fragile Lives: Death, Dying and Care

Book by Beverley Mcnamara; Allen & Unwin, 2001

Subjects:

Death--Social Aspects--Australia, Terminal Care, Terminally Ill--Australia

Collections: Entire Library

A sensitively observed ethnographic account of the experience of terminal illness and care.
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Children and Death: Perspectives from Birth through Adolescence

Book by John E. Schowalter, Penelope Buschman, Paul R. Patterson, Austin H. Kutscher, Margot Tallmer, Robert G. Stevenson, Jeanne D. Cole; Praeger Publishers, 1987

Subjects:

Children And Death, Children--Death--Psychological Aspects, Death--Psychological Aspects, Terminally Ill Children--Psychology

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Bringing together the views of numerous distinguished scholars, Children and Death investigates the child's concept of death from both academic and clinical points of view. The contributors have aimed at developing practical guidelines for a multidisciplinary approach to the care and support of the ...
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Bringing together the views of numerous distinguished scholars, Children and Death investigates the child's concept of death from both academic and clinical points of view. The contributors have aimed at developing practical guidelines for a multidisciplinary approach to the care and support of the dying child, the child's family unit, and staff who work with dying children. The findings presented here are also applicable to care of children with life-threatening illness. Topics discussed include: children's concepts of death; emotional impact of disease; perspectives on children's death and dying; and coping with a child's death.
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End-Of-Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries

Book by Donald E. Gelfand, Richard Raspa, Sherylyn H. Briller, Stephanie Myers Schim; Springer, 2005

Subjects:

Death--Psychology, Storytelling--Psychological Aspects, Terminally Ill--Anecdotes, Terminally Ill--Psychology

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...such as dying with dignity or a good death, difficult. In this book, narrative...care organizations. The needs of terminally ill patients, however, do not usually...death, and what constitutes a good death may vary tremendously between and...
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Sibling Loss

Book by Joanna H. Fanos; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996

Subjects:

Bereavement--Psychological Aspects, Brothers And Sisters--Death--Psychological Aspects, Children--Death, Death--Psychological Aspects, Parents Of Terminally Ill Children--Psychology, Terminally Ill Children--Family Relationships

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

This is a superb book. It is based on extensive interviews, careful and complete mastery of existing literature, and the research of others. It is a significant contribution to our understanding of mourning, childhood and adolescent psychology, and of specific diseases, particularly cystic fibrosis.

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Journal Articles on: terminally ill and good death

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Restricting Physician-Assisted Death to the Terminally Ill

Journal article by Martin Gunderson, David J. Mayo; The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 30, 2000

Subjects:

Assisted suicide--Ethical aspects, Physician and patient--Ethical aspects, Physician-patient relations--Ethical aspects, Terminally ill persons--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Terminally ill--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...There is good evidence...assisted death have been...ebbs away, terminally ill patients...assisted death were extended to terminally ill patients...1. For a good overview...Days Before Death: Implications...Defining the `Terminally Ill," pp. 319-32. 22. For a good overview...
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DESIRE TO DIE IN TERMINALLY ILL PEOPLE: A Framework for Assessment and Intervention

Journal article by Ruth Anne Van Loon; Health and Social Work, Vol. 24, 1999

Subjects:

Assisted suicide--Evaluation, Bipolar disorder--Alternative treatment, Social workers--Evaluation, Terminally ill persons--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...TO DIE IN TERMINALLY ILL PEOPLE: A...wish for death be assessed...die. Im no good to anyone...to desire death? American...Depression in the terminally ill. British...the common good. Health...Desire for death in the terminally ill. American...
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Ethics and Communication with the Terminally Ill

Journal article by Thomas Addington, Jeanne Wegescheide-Harris; Health Communication, Vol. 7, 1995

Subjects:

Communication In Medicine, Health In Mass Media

Collections: Entire Library

...with the difficulty of dealing with death at the personal level, makes communication...that addresses communication with terminally ill patients does so without directly...consumers deserve access to equally good medical care, but also that each...
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Hope as a Strategy in Supervising Social Workers of Terminally Ill Patients

Journal article by Haya Itzhaky, Rachel Lipschitz-Elhawi; Health and Social Work, Vol. 29, 2004

Subjects:

Palliative treatment--Research, Social case work--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...treating terminally ill patients...facing the death of clients...something good can be derived...moment and death is always...Counseling a terminally ill client means...therapists of terminally ill clients...issues of death, despair...
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Factors Influencing Decisions to Terminate Life: Conditions of Suffering and the Identity of the Terminally Ill

Journal article by Robert Ho; Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 34, 1999

Subjects:

Assisted suicide--Moral and ethical aspects, Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects, Medical ethics--Analysis, Right to die--Moral and ethical aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...life and death is being...the type of terminally ill patient...there was a good fit between...For many terminally ill patients...elective death by euthanasia...person becomes terminally ill. Such attitudes...life and death debate, may...

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Magazine Articles on: terminally ill and good death

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Withdrawing Life Support from the Terminally Ill

Magazine article by Anne E. Fade; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 124, January 1996

Subjects:

Enteral nutrition--Ethical aspects, Terminal care--Laws, regulations and rules, Terminally ill persons--Laws, regulations and rules, Terminally ill--Laws, regulations and rules, Tube feeding--Ethical aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...the dying process. The terminally ill sometimes can benefit...powerlessness in the face of death and may lead to actions...may delay the moment of death, but can not alter the...condition. The persons death is considered to be due...
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A Good Death

Magazine article by Carol Bernstein Ferry; The Nation, Vol. 273, September 17, 2001

Subjects:

Euthanasia--Social aspects, Right to die--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...have known since last June that I am terminally ill. Emphysema, a tumor in my chest and...question that I am on the way to death. This seems to me in no way a tragedy...sorrow to know that Im a member in good standing of the human race; I have...
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The Good Mothers: Romania's HIV/AIDS Activists Are Mostly Poor Mothers of Thousands of Children Who Contracted the Disease Due to Poor Medical Practices under the Ceaucescu Regime

Magazine article by Mike Marcolongo; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 28, Spring 2002

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--Causes of, AIDS patients--Care and treatment, Anti-HIV agents--Administration and dosage, Public health administration--Romania, Terminally ill children--Care and treatment

Collections: Entire Library

The good mothers: Romanias HIV/AIDS activists are mostly poor mothers of thousands...common cold. At age seven, he was diagnosed as HIV positive. At age nine, his death became another grim statistic in the unique pediatric HIV/AIDS epidemic in...
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Death with Dignity

Magazine article by William Mccord; The Humanist, Vol. 53, January 1993

Subjects:

Euthanasia--Ethical aspects, Kevorkian, Jack--Public opinion, Suicide--Ethical aspects, Terminally ill persons--Psychological aspects, Terminally ill--Psychological aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...doctors give lethal injections to the terminally ill; Derek Humphrys Final Exit, a handbook...pro-choice" arguments as they apply to death as well as to birth. Because some...man in afl respects who has many good reasons for quitting life " And as...
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Born toward Dying

Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 2000

Subjects:

Cancer patients--Psychology and mental health, Death--Religious aspects, Mortality--Religious aspects, Terminally ill persons--Psychology and mental health

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...when the discussion turns to a good death. As children of a culture radically...very antithesis of all that is good. Death is to be warded off by exercise...lucky to die, and I know it." Good for him. "Why fear death?" asked Charles Frohman as he...

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Newspaper Articles on: terminally ill and good death

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Caring at Home for Terminally Ill 'Good for Patients and for NHS'

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 22, 2007

Subjects:

Cancer patients, Curie, Marie, Palliative care, Palliative treatment, Wales. National Assembly

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Caring at Home for Terminally Ill Good for Patients and...families grieving the death of a loved one...that they had a good death where they were...that if they were terminally ill they would wish...subject of giving terminally ill patients the choice...
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Should Terminally Ill People Be Allowed to Die? DEBATE

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 22, 2006

Subjects:

Assisted suicide--Analysis, Euthanasia--Analysis, Palliative care--Analysis, Palliative treatment--Analysis, Terminally ill persons--Analysis, Terminally ill--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Bill for the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill became law, there would be no need...choice and dignity at the time of our death, to consider such extremes. We desperately...assisted dying are extremely rare when good palliative care is available. It...
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RIGHT TO DIE: Three Quarters of Public Back Right-to-Die for the Terminally Ill

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 13, 2006

Subjects:

Terminally ill persons--Surveys, Terminally ill--Surveys

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...that most people were in favour of the terminally ill being allowed to die. Fifty-nine per cent said there was good care for people in the later stages of...who understand the reality of life and death". She added: "That one third of churchgoers...
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WERE MEDICS PLAYING GOD; FAMILY FURY AFTER AFTER DOCTOR DECIDES NOT TO RESUSCITATE PATIENT AS the Tragic Case of Terminally Ill Eileen Doran Puts Patients' Rights Back on the Agenda, a Liverpool Family Reveals Their Battle to Find out the Events Surrounding Their Mother's Death. HELEN HUNT Reports

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), December 3, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the Tragic Case of Terminally Ill Eileen Doran Puts...Surrounding Their Mothers Death. HELEN HUNT Reports...it is considered good practice. Today...a week after the death of her husband, Edward...condition up until his death. But they are angry...
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Terminally Ill Man Wins Right to Life

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 31, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Life. Byline: Cathy Gordon A terminally ill man was ecstatic yesterday after...at least in circumstances where death is not imminent and the claimant...well as widely shared views about good practice. She said that the GMC...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: terminally ill and good death

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Euthanasia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Greek expression for "good death." Technological advances...should be withdrawn from a terminally ill patient. The Supreme...physician-assisted suicide) for the terminally ill, and in 2002 the country...Rethinking Life and Death (1994); H. Hendin...

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