This final volume of ""Death and Bereavement Around the World"" reflects on some major themes: death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches, cultural variations, suicide, and other issues. The first few chapters describe progress in end-of-life care, including some new tools to evaluate hospice care (chapter 1); what children know, when they know it, and how parents can respond to questions, with some guidelines for support by schools (chapter 2); the importance of ritual (chapter 3); and, gender differences in death customs around the world (chapter 4).The transcript of a 1997 interview of John (Jack) Morgan by Pittu Laungani is presented as chapter 5. The following chapters discuss death systems and suicide (chapter 6); HIV/AIDS, including the role of cultural and economic factors in the spread of the disease (chapter 7); and grief and bereavement in the developing world, taking the AIDS pandemic as a specific challenge (chapter 8). Chapter 9 covers issues related to dying and death in Romania. In chapter 10 the focus is on the various functions and uses of names in a cross-cultural context. Roadside memorials as a pivotal healing strategy are the topic of chapter 11. Chapters 12 and 13 focus on spiritual experience with loss.The final chapter presents some conclusions, and in the Epilogue, Mary Ann Morgan honors the life, career, dying, death, and achievements of John (Jack) Morgan. The 'Final Word' includes the words of Pittu Laungani, from a book published just weeks before his death in February 2007.This work is for anyone interested in or working in death and bereavement issues, particularly academics, educators, librarians, chaplains, clergy, funeral service directors, hospice care providers and volunteers, palliative care providers, nurses, immigration officers, psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists, and counselors, especially bereavement counselors.

• We started tracking this book on March 20, 2017.
• This book was £48.44 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 22 times in the past 2,974 days.
• The current price of this book is £70.84 last checked 23 hours ago.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past 90 days is £67.61.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is £56.15.
• The lowest price to date was £47.91 last reached on May 12, 2020.
• This book has been £47.91 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £70.84 last reached on March 30, 2025.
• This book has been £70.84 one time since we started tracking it.
• This book is currently at its highest price since we started tracking it.

• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 281 Pages
• File Size: 11 KB