Coping with choices to die /

"This book examines the reactions of the friends and family of those who elect to die due to terminal illness. These surviving spouses, partners, relatives, and friends, in addition to coping with the death of a loved one, must also deal with the loved one's decision to die, thus severing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prado, C. G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Older people > Suicidal behavior.
Suicide > Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Cross-cultural studies.
Euthanasia > psychology
Suicide, Assisted > psychology
Attitude to Death
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Right to Die > ethics
Personnes âgées > Comportement suicidaire.
Suicide > Aspect moral.
Euthanasie > Aspect moral.
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
Études transculturelles.
PSYCHOLOGY > Suicide.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: emotions, feelings, and thoughts / by Wesley Boston
  • Laying the groundwork
  • Feelings: their influences and control
  • Culture's elusive role
  • Revising the criterion for rational elective death
  • Two philosophical challenges
  • Survivors' responses
  • Accepting finality
  • Appendix: belief in an afterlife.

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