Coping with choices to die
"This book examines the reactions of the friends and family of those who elect to die due to terminal illness. These surviving spouses, partners, relatives, and friends, in addition to coping with the death of a loved one, must also deal with the loved one's decision to die, thus severin...
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Cambridge, England ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2011
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Forward: Emotions, feelings, and thoughts / Wesley Boston
- 1. Laying the groundwork
- 2. Feelings: their influences and control
- 3. Culture's elusive role
- 4. Revising the criterion for rational elective death
- 5. Two philosophical challenges
- 6. Survivors' responses
- 7. Accepting finality
- Appendix: Belief in an afterlife.
