Exploring Issues of Care, Dying and the End of Life.

Intro -- Exploring Issues of Care, Dying and the End of Life -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Facing up to Death -- Moral Death: Preliminary Considerations -- Accepting One's Death as a Condition of One's Happiness -- Confronting Mortality: Reflections from Bedsides of the Dying and Workshops with the Living -- On the Blurred Edge between Life and Death: Acting Ethical in Borderline Situations -- A Semiotic Approach to Personal Death in Ethics -- Part 2: Communicating at the End of Life -- Drumming a Dying Friend Home: An Exploration of the Interconnectedness of Place and Music -- The Final Cut: End-of-Life Empowerment through Video Documentary -- Code Levels in Cardiology: Who, When and How? -- End-of-Life Discussions in Canada and the United Kingdom -- Spiritual Care at the End of Life -- Part 3: Seeking the Good Death -- Drawing Lines: The Problem of Distinguishing Disability from Dying in PAS Law -- Kodokushi (Dying Alone) - Japanese Perspectives -- Good Death in the Americas: Do North and South Americans Die Well Differently? -- Understanding Dignity at the End of Life: The Experience of Palliative Care Patients -- Grasping for the Missing Thread: On the (Non)Issue of Systematic Discontinuity in the Treatment of Patients at the End of Life -- Part 4: Handling Death -- Palliative Care at the End of Life in Denmark: The Role of Culture in Explaining Denmark's Poor Performance -- A Family Affair? Managing Death in the Twenty-First Century -- Risk of Burnout and Protective Factors in Palliative Care -- The Politics of Healthy Longevity and Good Death: A Case of Pin Pin Korori in Japan.

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