The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying, 10/e
Lynne Ann DeSpelder,
Cabrillo College Albert Lee Strickland
ISBN: 0078035465 Copyright year: 2015
Highlights of the 10th Edition
• Ongoing developments in care of the seriously ill and dying, especially as they pertain to hospice and palliative care
• Death through the life course, from infancy through later adulthood, including a new section on death and the college student
• New directions in mortuary services, including personalized funerals, “green burials,” and innovative options for body disposition and memorialization
• A changing health care system and its impact on dying and death
• How the Internet is influencing our relationship to death, dying, and bereavement in the digital age
• Insights about grief gained through an appreciation of the dual-process and two-track models of coping with bereavement, as well as other models that can aid in understanding bereavement, grief, and mourning, including discussion of working through grief, maintaining continuing bonds with the deceased, and “telling the story” or narrative approaches to coping with grief
• How achieving “The Care-Full Society” and striving toward the creation of “Compassionate Cities” could improve and enhance our encounters with death
In addition, this edition contains new and updated material on physician-assisted death, remembrance rituals and linking objects, grief counseling and grief therapy, horrendous death, the placebo effect, familicide, and death of a companion animal.
2015