Death

The fully revised and updated edition of this best-selling collection combines academic research with professional and personal reflections. <strong>Death, Dying and Bereavement</strong> addresses both the practical and the more metaphysical aspects of death. Topics such as new methods of pain relief, guidelines for breaking bad news, and current attitudes to euthanasia are considered, while the mystery of death and its wider implications are also explored. A highly distinctive interdisciplinary approach is adopted, including perspectives from literature, theology, sociology and psychology. There are wide-ranging contributions from those who come into professional contact with death and bereavement - doctors, nurses, social workers and counselors. In addition there are more intimate personal accounts from carers and from bereaved people. <strong>Death, Dying and Bereavement</strong> is the Course Reader for The Open University course Death and Dying, which is offered as part of The Open University Diploma in Health and Social Welfare.