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David Clark,
Naomi Richards,
and
Marian Krawczyk
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- Defining dying and end of life
- ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ dying
- Hospital care at the end of life
- How communities around the world are creating new ways to deliver palliative care for people with chronic and terminal illnesses – the example of Kerala, in India
- How ‘compassionate communities’ are forming to work alongside service providers to meet the challenges of loneliness, isolation and the experience of ‘social death’ – the example of Clydebank, in Scotland
- Examining the fast growing world-wide interest in the movement known as ‘Death Café’
- Many people want to take direct control over how they die. Where is assisted dying legal and what are its implications – for the meaning of death, the practice of palliative care and the ‘right to choose’?
- Rational suicide – an emerging response to the desire for direct control over the manner of one’s death, especially among older people
- How modern individuals seek to ‘curate’ their dying process and the rituals that follow it
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