Education about death, dying, and bereavement -- Changing encounters with death -- Changing attitudes toward death -- Death-related practices and the American death system -- Cultural differences and death -- Coping with dying -- Coping with dying: how individuals can help -- Coping with dying: how communities can help -- Coping with loss and grief -- Coping with loss and grief: how individuals can help -- Coping with loss and grief: Funeral practices and other ways communities can help -- Children -- Adolecents -- Young and middle-aged adult -- Older adults -- Legal issues -- Suicide and life threatening behavior -- Assisted suicide and euthanasia: intentionally ending a human life -- The meaning and place of death in life -- Illustrating the themes of this book

1. Death -- Psychological aspects
2. Bereavemen019t -- Psychological aspect