Dying, Death, and Grief: A Critically Annotated Bibliography and Source Book of Thanatology and Terminal Care

Death is a very badly kept secret; such an unmentionable and taboo topic that there are over 750 books now in print asserting that we are ignoring the subject.At no time in history has there been so much attention paid to death as a subject for scholarly and literary study, clinical and research attention, or for cynical commercial exploitation. We have exceeded even the literary genre of the Ars Moriendi, which advanced the study of the art of dying some 500 years ago.Such an interest has ...