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Book Description: The fully revised and updated edition of this bestselling collection combines academic research with professional and personal reflections and will be of great interest to all those concerned with the issues surrounding death, and in particular, to those directly involved in the support of dying or bereaved people, whether as paid carers, family members, friends or volunteers.Death, Dying and Bereavement 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 mysetery of death and its wider implications are also explored. A highly distinctive interdiscipilnary approach is adopted, including perspectives from literature, theology, sociology and psychology. There are wwide ranging contributions from those who come into professional contact with death and bereavement doctors, nurses, social workers and councellors. In addition there are more intimate personal accounts from carers and from bereaved people.By drawing together information, reflection and experience, this authoritative text will broaden your understanding of a subject area that society has chosen to deny. For professionals and students in nursing, medicine, social work, the clergy, councelling and the care of dying and bereaved people, it is essential reading.Death, Dying and Bereavement is the Course Reader for the Open University course Death and Dying, which is offered as part of the Open University Dilpoma in Health and Social Welfare.

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