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Scholars contributing to this special issue on “Family Communication at the End of Life” have provided evidence that communication is vital for terminally ill individuals, family members, and healthcare/palliative care specialists. Overall, the fifteen articles in this special issue focus on five questions: First, what are the trends regarding different approaches for beginning the conversation about death and dying earlier rather than later? Second, who is making the end of life decisions and how are they made? Third, how does age and disease impact the way that families communicate at the end of life? Fourth, how does good communication (i.e., satisfying for all participants, effective for addressing needs, fulfilling goals) impact the myriad of complex issues at the end of life? Fifth, what is the significance of exploring and valuing the perspective of the family members’ experiences and recollections of their communication at the end of life with their terminally ill family member as well as with the healthcare providers? Overall, the scholars emphasize that focusing on family communication at the end of life is crucial for improving medical, psychological, and relational outcomes for those dealing with the death and dying process.

end of life --- communication --- family --- death and dying --- palliative care --- healthcare

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Laughter, contemporary theory suggests, is often aggressive in some manner and may be prompted by a sudden perception of incongruity combined with memories of past emotional experience. Given this importance of the past to our recognition of the comic, it follows that some ""traditions"" dispose us to ludic responses. The studies in Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture examine specific interactions of text (jokes, poetry, epitaphs, iconography, film drama) and social context (wakes, festivals, disasters) that shape and generate laughter. Uniquely, however,

Death. --- Death --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Folklore --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy

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There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality. Do we have reason to believe in the existence of immortal souls? Should we accept an account according to which people are just material objects, nothing more? Can we make sense of the idea of surviving the death of one's body? If I won't exist after I die, can death truly be bad for me? Would immortality be desirable? Is fear of death appropriate? Is suicide ever justified? How should I live in the face of death?Written in an informal and conversational style, this stimulating and provocative book challenges many widely held views about death, as it invites the reader to take a fresh look at one of the central features of the human condition-the fact that we will die.

Death. --- Ontology. --- Being --- Philosophy --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology

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Das Werk stellt ethische Herausforderungen und Entscheidungskonflikte aus dem breiten Feld der inner- und außerklinischen Notfallmedizin dar und liefert durch Denkanstöße und ethische Argumente praxisnahe Entscheidungshilfen. Es richtet sich disziplin- und berufsgruppenübergreifend an Ärzte und Pflegende unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen, Rettungsdienstmitarbeitende verschiedener Organisationen und Einrichtungen, Leitungen und Träger von Kliniken und Rettungsdiensten, Mitarbeitende von Kriseninterventionsteams sowie Ethikberatende und Ethikkomitees. Die Beiträge sind darauf ausgerichtet, sowohl Hilfe in kritischen Entscheidungssituationen zu bieten als auch die Klärung in der Nacharbeit zu solchen belastenden Ereignissen zu erleichtern. Den Lesern wird das nötige Handwerkszeug vermittelt, die ethischen Fragen von den übrigen Problemen, mit denen diese immer verwoben sind, zu differenzieren und zu bearbeiten. Das Buch antwortet als Nachschlagewerk auf ethische Fragen in der Notfallmedizin. Dazu werden in verschiedenen Fachbeiträgen ethische Themen praxisnah entfaltet und versteh- und handhabbar gemacht. In einer Fallsammlung werden diese Darstellungen an konkreten Situationen erprobt. Die Fälle können sowohl für Vor- und Nachbereitung in der Praxis als auch für den Unterricht aller in der Notfallmedizin Tätigen genutzt werden. Internetadressen, die auf offizielle Stellungnahmen von Fachgesellschaften und ethischen Arbeitsgruppen hinweisen, ergänzen die Darstellungen.

Emergency medicine --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Medicine, Emergency --- Medicine --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- decision --- living will --- autonomy --- end of life --- medical confidentiality --- MBDC

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A basic motivation for social and cultural life is the problem of death. By analysing the experiences of dying and bereaved people, as well as institutional responses to death, Clive Seale shows its importance for understanding the place of embodiment in social life. He draws on a comprehensive review of sociological, anthropological and historical studies, including his own research, to demonstrate the great variability that exists in human social constructions for managing mortality. Far from living in a 'death denying' society, dying and bereaved people in contemporary culture are often able to assert membership of an imagined community, through the narrative reconstruction of personal biography, drawing on a variety of cultural scripts emanating from medicine, psychology, the media and other sources. These insights are used to argue that the maintenance of the human social bond in the face of death is a continual resurrective practice, permeating everyday life.

Death. --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy --- Social aspects. --- Bereavement --- Mort --- Deuil --- Social Sciences --- Sociology