Death and Dying

• Death and Dying

Death is the end of life. Dying is the process of approaching death, including the choices and actions involved in that pr...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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• Dr. Krista Dobbie

Death and dying are a familiar reality for many medical professionals, but , a palliative care practitioner at Virginia Beach General Hospital and medical director for Sentara Medical Group's Palliative Care Program, literally faces it every day. Palliative care provides an education about the dying process," said Dobbie, a Norfolk resident. But it's not about giving up on life, she stressed, and in fact strives to address and improve one's quality of life.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• October 07, 2010

• Hastings Center Rep.: The Evolution of Death and Dying Controversies.

When the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences (now the Hastings Center) began its death and dying work in 1970, the first task was to di...

• Issues in Law & Medicine
• Vol. 25 Nbr. 1, June 2009

• Ancient answers to modern questions: death, dying, and organ transplants - a Jewish law perspective.

I. INTRODUCTION III. DEFINING DEATH III. ORGAN TRANSPLANTS IV. "CHOOSE LIFE"--MEDICAL DIRECTIVES, EUTHANASIA, SUICIDE A. Suicide B. The DNR Conund...

• Journal of Law and Health
• Vol. 11 Nbr. 1-2, March 1996

• The Myth of the Stages of Dying, Death and Grief

The lessons Kübler-Ross learned from those dying people, coupled with her compassionate regard for them, became a focal point of the emergent Hospice movement. Medical and mental health professionals and the general public accepted the theory without ever investigating its provenance or validity. On February 21, 2007, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published the results of the Yale Bereavement Study (YBS): An Empirical Examination of the Stage Theory of Grief.

• Skeptic
• Vol. 14 Nbr. 2, January 2008

• The Death of Derrion Albert: Living and Dying in America

There has been a torrent of expressions of rightful outrage, profound shock and shared grief over the brutal and callous killing of Derrion Albert of Chicago, 16, honor student, college bound, accidental martyr and routine murder victim, caught up in the larger issue of the way too many young Black males live and die in America. But if we are not careful and continuously attentive, his savage and senseless murder could easily become just another item on the internet among the endless spectacles of life and death, routine shock and shared self-titillation the American media is internationally known for. And after all the presidential promises and expressions of concern, after all the local and national assemblies and calls to action and the media's quick and inevitable exhaustion of inte...

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• November 27, 2009

• Religion, Death, and Dying; 3v.

ISBN: 9780313351730 TITLE: Religion, death, and dying; 3v. AUTHOR: Ed. by Lucy Bregman. PUBLISHER: Praeger PUBLISH DATE: 2010 PAGES: 240 PRICE: $154.9...

• Reference and Research Book News
• Vol. 25 Nbr. 1, February 2010

• Why Are Our Babies Dying? Pregnancy, Birth, and Death in America.

Why Are Our Babies Dying? Pregnancy, Birth, and Death in America. Sandra D. Lane. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2008, 239 pages. ISBN: 978-1-59451...

• Health and Social Work
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 1, February 2010

• Global-warming alarmism dying a slow death: promoters of global-warming alarmism have falsified data and smeared contrarian scientists. But even though they have no scientific credibility, they won't go away soon.

Last December in Copenhagen at the United Nations climate summit, officials and global-warming alarmists seemed confident of their imminent triumph. "...

• The New American
• April 12, 2010

• I. H. Kerridge et al., Death, Dying and Donation: Organ Transplantation and the Diagnosis of Death.

28 J. MED. ETHICS 89 (2002). Refusal of organ donation is common, and becoming more frequent. In Australia refusal by families occurred in 56% of ca...

• Issues in Law & Medicine
• Vol. 18 Nbr. 1, June 2002