DEATH BIBLIOGRAPHY

Copyright © 2015 by James Park

    Selected and reviewed by James Park.
Organized in the order of quality, beginning with the best.
Comments in red are the views of this reviewer.



1. Lee Gutkind, editor

At the End of Life:
True Stories About How We Die

(Pittsburgh, PA: Creative Nonfiction Books, 2012)       255 pages
(Library of Congress call number: R726.9.A88 2012)
(ISBN: 978-1-937163-04-4; paperback)

    A collection of heart-felt accounts of the deaths
of people who were close to these 22 authors.
All well-written and deeply meaningful.
Offers stimulus for thinking about our own coming deaths.



5. Gere B. Fulton, PhD., JD. & Eileen K. Metress, PhD.

Perspectives on Death and Dying

(Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 1995)       505 pages
(Library of Congress call number: BF789.D4F974p 1995)

    A comprehensive textbook on death and dying.  The themes:
1. defining death.
2. withdrawing treatment & life-supports.
3. advance directives.
4. euthanasia.
5. defective newborns.
6. abortion.
7. the process of dying.
8. bereavement.
9. children & death.
10. suicide.
11. organ donation.
12. funerals, etc.

    This book breaks no new ground,
but it does summarize all these issues up to the middle of the 1990s.
It was developed as a college text for a course on death and dying.


Created January 25, 1999; revised 2-26-2009; 5-30-2010; 9-11-2010; 9-2-2015;


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