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Death and Dying
Editor James Haley has compiled essays from doctors, scientists, and those who have lost loved ones in order to discuss the difficult issues surrounding death and dying. Readers will learn about steps to easing the dying process, and methods for coping with death. They will learn about efforts to extend the human life span, and the possibility of life after death. Essays are arranged so that readers think critically about what they're learning. Can grief be managed? One essay claims that no, it cannot, while another essay gives compelling argument that medical treatment can reduce pain. It's up the reader to decide their own opinions based on both intelligent viewpoints.
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Review: Death and DyingThis recent addition to the Opposing Viewpoints series includes chapters on improvement of end-of-life care, how people cope with death, efforts to expand the human life span, and after death. Specific essays discuss hospice, physician-assisted suicide, and advance directives; anger, peace, non-traditional funerals, and grief management; immortality, cryonics and the efforts to extend human life; afterlife, near-death experiences, and reincarnation. The purpose is to provide a wide diversity of opinions and to stimulate readers to further research.Issues in Law & Medicine, Spring 2004RL
Grades
10-12+ IL
Grades
9-12+ 
