Learning about Death and Dying and Bereavement, Education about Death and Dying and Bereavement, Death, Changing Encounters with Death, Changing Attitudes Towards Death, Death-Related Practices and the American Death System, Cultural Differences and Death, Dying, Copying with Dying, Copying with Dying: How Individuals Can Help, Copying with Dying: How Communities Can Help, Bereavement, Coping with Loss and Grief, Coping with Loss and Grief: Funeral Practices and Other Ways, Developmental Perspectives, Children, Adolescents, Young and Middle-Aged Adults, Older Adults, Legal and Conceptual and Moral Issues, Legal Issues, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Intentionally Ending a Human Life, The Meaning and Place of Death in Life, An Example of a Specific Disease Entity, Illustrating the Themes of This Book, References, Name and Subject Index.