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Death, Society, and Human Experience

by: Kastenbaum, Robert J.

Death, Society, and Human Experience

by: Kastenbaum, Robert J.

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0205264778
Edition: 6th
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Copyright: 09/01/1997
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Landmark text in death education. Interdisciplinary approach. New chapter on HIV/AIDS. Includes case examples and reflective exercises to encourage students to reflect upon their own experiences with death issues.

PREFACE

1 AS WE THINK ABOUT DEATH

(24)

NOT THINKING ABOUT DEATH: A FAILED EXPERIMENT

(2)

Listening and Communicating

(1)

YOUR SELF-INVENTORY OF ATTITUDES, BELIEFS, AND FEELINGS

(6)

SOME ANSWERS--AND THE QUESTIONS THEY RAISE

(5)

Knowledge Base

(2)

Attitudes, Experiences, Beliefs, Feelings

(2)

How Does State of Mind Affect Death-Related Behavior?

(1)

HUMANS ARE MORTAL: BUT WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ME?

(1)

ANXIETY, DENIAL, AND ACCEPTANCE: THREE CORE CONCEPTS

(1)

THEORIES AND STUDIES OF DEATH ANXIETY

(3)

How is Death Anxiety Studied?

(1)

How Does Death Anxiety Influence Our Lives? Theoretical Perspectives

(1)

How Much Do We Fear Death?

(1)

Are There Gender Differences in Death Anxiety?

(1)

Are There Age Differences in Death Anxiety?

(1)

Is Death Anxiety Related to Mental Health and Illness?

(1)

Back to Death Anxiety Theory

(1)

ACCEPTING AND DENYING DEATH

(6)

Types and Contexts of Acceptance and Denial

(2)

The Interpersonal Side of Acceptance and Denial

(1)

Anxiety, Denial, and Acceptance: How Should We Respond?

(4)

2 WHAT IS DEATH? What Does Death Mean?

(28)

COMPETING IDEAS ABOUT THE NATURE AND MEANING OF DEATH

(2)

"When," "What," and "Why" Questions about Death

(2)

BIOMEDICAL APPROACHES TO THE DEFINITION OF DEATH

(4)

Traditional Determination of Death

(1)

Ways of "Being Dead"

(1)

Brain Death and the Harvard Criteria

(1)

Whole-Brain or Neocortal Death?

(1)

Event Versus State

(1)

WHAT DOES DEATH MEAN?

(21)

Interpretations of the Death State

(2)

Cycling and Recycling

(2)

Implications of the Ways in Which We Interpret Death

(1)

Conditions That Resemble Death

(6)

Conditions That Death Resembles

(2)

Death As an Agent of Personal, Political, and Social Change

(4)

Concepts of Death and Readiness to Die

(4)

3 THE DEATH SYSTEM

(26)

A WORLD WITHOUT DEATH

(26)

General Consequences

(1)

Personal Consequences

(1)

BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DEATH SYSTEM

(16)

A Working Definition

(1)

Components of the Death System

(4)

Functions of the Death System

(11)

HOW OUR DEATH SYSTEM HAS BEEN CHANGING--AND THE "DEATHNIKS" WHO ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE

(5)

Changing Ways of Life, Changing Ways of Death

(1)

The Beginnings of Death Education, Research, and Counseling

(4)

4 CAUSES OF DEATH: YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW

(8)

BASIC TERMS AND CONCEPTS

(8)

Death Learns to Wait: The Increase in Life Expectancy and Longevity

(1)

Leading Causes of Death in the United States Today

(2)

Causes of Death in the Future?

(4)

5 DYING Transition from Life

(32)

WHAT IS DYING AND WHEN DOES IT BEGIN?

(6)

Individual and Interpersonal Responses

(3)

Onset of the Dying Process: Alternative Perspectives

(3)

TRAJECTORIES OF DYING: FROM BEGINNING TO END

(6)

Certainty and Time

(1)

The Lingering Trajectory

(1)

The Expected Quick Trajectory

(1)

The Unexpected Quick Trajectory

(1)

Life-or-Death Emergencies

(1)

GUARDED FEELINGS, SUBTLE COMMUNICATIONS

100

(6)

Difficulties in Communication

101

(1)

Doctor-Patient Communication: The SUPPORT Study

102

(1)

Improving Communication

103

(3)

INDIVIDUALITY AND UNIVERSALITY IN THE EXPERIENCE OF DYING

106

(4)

Factors that Influence the Experience of Dying

106

(3)

Interpersonal Relationships

109

(1)

Disease, Treatment, and Environment

109

(1)

THEORETICAL MODELS OF THE DYING PROCESS

110

(9)

Do We Die in Stages?

110

(4)

Other Theoretical Models of the Dying Process

114

(2)

Your Deathbed Scene

116

(3)

6 THE HOSPICE APPROACH TO TERMINAL CARE

119

(28)

HOSPICE: A NEW FLOWERING FROM ANCIENT ROOTS

120

(2)

STANDARDS OF CARE FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL

122

(3)

Hidden or Implicit Standards of Care

123

(1)

Proposed Standards Recommended by the International Task Force

123

(2)

ESTABLISHMENT OF HOSPICE PROGRAMS IN THE UNITED STATES

125

(2)

From Guidelines to Operational Programs

125

(1)

Full Service and Partial Service Hospices

126

(1)

THE HOSPICE IN ACTION

127

(6)

Entering St. Christopher's

127

(1)

Mother's Last Moments: A Daughter's Experience

128

(2)

Helping Mrs. Doe: Excerpts from a Clinical Record

130

(1)

Adult Respite Care

131

(1)

Hospice-Inspired Care for Children

132

(1)

IS THE HOSPICE EXPERIMENT WORKING?

133

(5)

Is Hospice Care Really Helping Terminally Ill People and Their Families?

134

(3)

The Cost of Hospice Care

137

(1)

The Operational Success of Hospice Care

138

(1)

YOUR DEATHBED SCENE, REVISITED

138

(2)

ACCESS TO HOSPICE CARE AND THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS

140

(2)

ON THE FUTURE OF HOSPICE CARE: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

142

(5)

Hospice as Temple of Learning

143

(4)

7 AIDS: LIVING IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW

147

(28)

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS)

148

(10)

Nature of the Disease

148

(2)

Silent and Active Stages of HIV/AIDS

150

(2)

How Did the AIDS Virus Become Part of Our Society?

152

(2)

How Do Individuals Contract the AIDS Infection?

154

(4)

Risky and Not-Risky Behaviors: A Summary

158

(1)

THE CASUALTIES: AIDS-RELATED DEATHS

158

(13)

AIDS in the United States

158

(3)

AIDS Throughout the World

161

(2)

Changing Patterns of AIDS in the U.S. Death System

163

(7)

Comfort for Grief, Alternatives to Suicide

170

(1)

The AIDS Watch: Continuing Developments

171

(1)

APPENDIX: NATIONAL AIDS ORGANIZATIONS

171

(4)

8 SUICIDE

175

(32)

THE STATISTICAL PROFILE

176

(4)

United States and World Suicide Rates

178

(1)

The Human Side

179

(1)

THREE PROBLEM AREAS

180

(7)

Youth Suicide

180

(4)

Suicide among Elderly Persons

184

(2)

Suicide among Native Americans

186

(1)

Balancing Individual and Cultural Influences on Suicide

187

(1)

SOME CULTURAL MEANINGS OF SUICIDE

187

(5)

Suicide as Sinful

187

(2)

Suicide as Criminal

189

(1)

Suicide as Weakness or Madness

189

(1)

Suicide as "The Great Death"

190

(1)

Suicide as Rational Alternative

191

(1)

A POWERFUL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF SUICIDE

192

(2)

The Importance of Social Integration

192

(1)

Four Types of Suicide

193

(1)

SOME INDIVIDUAL MEANINGS OF SUICIDE

194

(4)

Suicide for Reunion

194

(1)

Suicide for Rest and Refuge

195

(1)

Suicide for Revenge

195

(1)

Suicide As the Penalty for Failure

196

(1)

Suicide As a Mistake

197

(1)

A PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH TO SUICIDE

198

(1)

THE DESCENT TOWARD SUICIDE

199

(1)

FACTS, MYTHS, AND GUIDELINES

200

(1)

Popular Myths about Suicide

200

(1)

SUICIDE PREVENTION

201

(6)

Individual Guidelines to Suicide Prevention

201

(1)

Systematic Approaches to Suicide Prevention

202

(5)

9 VIOLENT DEATH: MURDER, TERRORISM, ACCIDENT, AND DISASTER

207

(28)

MURDER

208

(10)

Overview

208

(1)

Murder: The Statistical Picture

208

(2)

Patterns of Murder in the United States

210

(1)

Domestic Violence: The Abused Woman Defends Herself

211

(1)

People Who Kill Children

212

(1)

Mass and Serial Killers: Who Are They and Why Do They Do It?

213

(2)

Political Murder: Assassination in the United States

215

(2)

Young Men with Guns

217

(1)

TERRORISM

218

(10)

Who is the Terrorist?

218

(3)

Twentieth Century Terrorism

221

(2)

Terrorism and the Death System Today

223

(5)

ACCIDENT AND DISASTER

228

(7)

Accidents

229

(2)

Natural Disasters

231

(4)

10 ASSISTED DEATH AND THE RIGHT TO DIE

235

(36)

"I SWEAR BY APOLLO THE PHYSICIAN": WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH?

236

(1)

KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS

237

(4)

OUR CHANGING ATTITUDES TOWARD A RIGHT TO DIE

241

(2)

Survey Findings

241

(2)

THE RIGHT-TO-DIE DILEMMA: CASE EXAMPLES

243

(9)

The Ethics of Withdrawing Treatment: The Landmark Quinlan Case

243

(1)

"It's Over, Debbie": Compassion or Murder?

244

(2)

An Arrow through the Physician's Armor

246

(1)

Does a Person Have to Be Dying to Have the Right to Die?

247

(2)

Competent to Decide?

249

(2)

A Supreme Court Ruling: The Nancy Cruzan Case

251

(1)

RIGHT-TO-DIE DECISIONS THAT WE CAN MAKE

252

(6)

From Living Will to Patient's Self-Determination Act

253

(1)

Informed Consent and the Patient's Self-Determination Act

254

(3)

A Right Not to Die? The Cryonics Alternative

257

(1)

DR. KEVORKIAN AND THE ASSISTED SUICIDE MOVEMENT

258

(13)

The Netherlands: A Social Experiment Watched Closely by the World

259

(1)

Assisted Death in the Kevorkian Manner

260

(3)

Evaluating Kevorkian's Approach

263

(1)

Compassion in Dying: An Alternative Model

264

(2)

New Developments in the Legalization of Assisted Suicide

266

(1)

A Personal Word

267

(4)

11 DEATH IN THE WORLD OF CHILDHOOD

271

(36)

ADULT ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT CHILDREN AND DEATH

272

(2)

CHILDREN DO THINK ABOUT DEATH

274

(9)

Early Experiences with Death in Childhood

274

(2)

Death in the Songs and Games of Childhood

276

(1)

Research and Clinical Evidence

277

(1)

Research Case Histories

278

(5)

CONCEPTS OF DEATH: DEVELOPING THROUGH EXPERIENCE

283

(7)

"Auntie Death's" Pioneering Study

284

(2)

Evaluating Nagy's contribution

286

(1)

Developmental Level--More Important Than Chronological Age?

287

(1)

Does Anxiety Influence Children's Thoughts about Death?

288

(1)

Cultural Influences on Children's Concepts of Death

289

(1)

HOW DO CHILDREN COPE WITH BEREAVEMENT?

290

(4)

A Death in the Family: Effects on the Child

290

(2)

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following a Violent Death

292

(1)

Long-term Effects of Childhood Bereavement

292

(2)

HELPING CHILDREN COPE WITH BEREAVEMENT

294

(2)

THE DYING CHILD

296

(5)

Care of the Dying Child

299

(1)

Siblings of the Dying Child

300

(1)

SHARING THE CHILD'S DEATH CONCERNS: A FEW GUIDELINES

301

(1)

THE `RIGHT' TO DECIDE: SHOULD THE CHILD'S VOICE BE HEARD?

302

(5)

12 BEREAVEMENT, GRIEF, AND MOURNING

307

(40)

DEFINING OUR TERMS: BEREAVEMENT, GRIEF, MOURNING

309

(7)

Bereavement: An Objective Fact

309

(1)

Grief: A Painful Response

310

(3)

Mourning: A Signal of Distress

313

(3)

THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GRIEF

316

(6)

The Griefwork Theory

317

(1)

Interpersonal Applications of Griefwork Theory

318

(2)

Other Theoretical Approaches to Understanding Grief

320

(2)

HOW DO PEOPLE RECOVER FROM GRIEF?

322

(13)

When a Spouse Dies

322

(4)

Types of Recovery from the Impact of Marital Bereavement

326

(3)

The Family that Has Lost a Child

329

(4)

Bereavement in Later Life

333

(1)

Grief Responses to Traumatic and Stigmatized Deaths

334

(1)

ARE BEREAVED PEOPLE AT HIGHER RISK FOR DEATH?

335

(3)

Differential Mortality Risk: The Statistical Pattern

335

(1)

Who Is Most at Risk?

336

(1)

What Are the Leading Causes of Death among the Bereaved?

336

(1)

Hidden and Disenfranchised Grief

337

(1)

LIMITED SUPPORT FOR THE BEREAVED

338

(2)

American Society's Discomfort with Grief and Mourning

338

(1)

Time for Grief--But Not Much Time

339

(1)

MEANINGFUL HELP FOR BEREAVED PEOPLE

340

(7)

Widow to Widow: The Phyllis Silverman Interview

340

(1)

Helpful and Unhelpful Responses to the Bereaved Person

341

(6)

13 THE FUNERAL PROCESS

347

(32)

FROM DEAD BODY TO LIVING MEMORY: A PROCESS APPROACH

350

(6)

Common Elements of the Funeral Process

350

(3)

The Funeral Service

353

(2)

Memorializing the Deceased

355

(1)

Getting on with Life

355

(1)

MAKING DEATH "LEGAL"

356

(4)

Establishing the Facts of Death

356

(2)

The Medical Examiner and the Autopsy

358

(1)

Body, Property, and the Law

359

(1)

WHAT DOES THE FUNERAL PROCESS ACCOMPLISH?

360

(9)

When Great People Die

360

(1)

Death Makes a Hero

361

(2)

Hiding the Illustrious Dead

363

(1)

Balancing the Claims of the Living and the Dead

364

(2)

Memories of Our People: Ethnic Cemeteries in the United States

366

(3)

THE PLACE OF THE DEAD IN SOCIETY, YESTERDAY AND TODAY

369

(3)

An Ethical Position on the Treatment of Human Remains: The Vermillion Accord

370

(1)

"You Were the Best Dog Ever": The Pet Cemetery

371

(1)

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS: A FUNERAL DIRECTOR'S PERSPECTIVE

372

(2)

IMPROVING THE FUNERAL PROCESS

374

(5)

Alternative Funerals

375

(1)

Spontaneous Memorialization in Response to Violent Death

375

(4)

14 DO WE SURVIVE DEATH?

379

(30)

CONCEPT OF SURVIVAL IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

380

(3)

Does Survival Have to Be Proved?

381

(2)

NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES: NEW EVIDENCE FOR SURVIVAL?

383

(11)

The Primary, or Moody-Type, Near-Death Experience

383

(2)

Evidence Favoring the NDE as Proof of Survival

385

(1)

The Sabom Study: Independent Verification of NDE Phenomena

386

(1)

Eliminating Other Explanations

387

(1)

Can Interview and Questionnaire Data Prove That NDE Survivors Have Actually Survived Death?

387

(1)

Has NDE Research Ended Before It Really Started?

388

(1)

Evidence and Logic against the Near-Death Experience as Evidence for Survival

389

(1)

Mysticism, Depersonalization, and Hyperalertness in Response to Crisis

390

(1)

When Do People Not Have NDEs? An Alternative Explanation

391

(1)

Are NDEs Hallucinations?

392

(1)

NDEs as Exercises in Religious Imagination?

392

(1)

The NDER as a Healing and Illuminating Metaphor

393

(1)

Is a Conclusion Possible?

OTHER TYPES OF POSSIBLE EVIDENCE FOR SURVIVAL

394

(6)

Deathbed Escorts

394

(1)

Guardian Angels

395

(2)

Communicating with the Dead?

397

(1)

When Spiritism Was in Flower

397

(1)

Channeling and Past Life Regression

398

(1)

The Psychomanteum and Reunion with the Dead

398

(1)

Reincarnation

399

(1)

SHOULD WE SURVIVE DEATH?

400

(2)

BUT WHAT KIND OF SURVIVAL?

402

(1)

YOUR THOUGHTS ON SURVIVAL: A REVIEW

403

(1)

THE SUICIDE-SURVIVAL CONNECTION

404

(5)

15 HOW CAN WE HELP? The Promise of Death Education and Counseling

409

(18)

DEATH EDUCATORS AND COUNSELORS: THE "BORDER PATROL"

410

(1)

DEATH EDUCATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

411

(3)

From Ancient Times

411

(3)

DEATH EDUCATION AND COUNSELING: THE CURRENT SCENE

414

(5)

How Effective is Death Education?

416

(1)

The Expanding Scope of Death Education

417

(2)

COUNSELING AND THE COUNSELORS

419

(3)

Characteristics of Professionals in the Death System

419

(2)

Counseling and Psychotherapy

421

(1)

HOW WE ALL CAN HELP

422

(1)

APPENDIX: SELECTED LEARNING RESOURCES

423

(4)

National Organizations with Interests and Expertise in Related Issues

423

(1)

Scholarly and Professional Journals

424

(1)

Selected Videos

424

(3)

INDEX

427

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