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  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 40 Anv edition (29 Aug 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415463998
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415463997
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 19,983 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for On Death and Dying:

'This book is important reading for nurses, doctors, clergy, and others whose work brings them into contact with the dying. It is also recommended to any reader who refuses to believe that the best way to deal with fear is to run away.' – Colin Murray Parkes, from the foreword

‘All those involved in social work, be they students, practitioners, or teachers should read it; for it concerns loss, and assisting people to deal with losses of one kind or another is the social worker's commonest task. Here is a book that helps them to do this with sensitivity, insight and compassion.' – British Journal of Social Work

‘This is a book to own but every library should have a copy and every medical and nursing syllabus a place for discussion of death and dying with this as a textbook.’ – Nursing Times

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Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The five stages of grief, first formulated in this hugely influential work forty years ago, are now part of our common understanding of bereavement. The five stages were first identified by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her work with dying patients at the University of Chicago and were considered phases that all or most people went through, when faced with the prospect of their own death. They are now often accepted as a response to any major life change.

However, in spite of these terms being in general use, the subject of death is still surrounded by conventional attitudes and reticence that offer only fragile comfort because they evade the real issues. This groundbreaking book is still relevant – giving a voice to dying people and exploring what impending death means to them, often in their own words. People speak about their experience of dying, their relief in expressing their fear and anger and being able to move forward to a state of acceptance and peace.

Ideal for all those with an interest in bereavement or the five stages of grief, this book contains a new extended introduction from Professor Allan Kellehear. This additional chapter re-examines On Death and Dying looking at how it has influenced contemporary thought and practice.


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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This book is superb. The updated version, written when the author herself was dying is an excellent help when facing the death of a friend. Understanding the stages of acceptance was important to all of us, and also to know that the emotions we were going through were normal - and that meant we could talk about them - not bad for a family where emotional communication is not our strong point.

I would strongly recommend this for anyone, but particularly for families where the children are dealing with the death of a parent. If they are old enough to get through the book (maybe 16+) then I hope it would be a help. It was for us.
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on death and dying 7 Sep 2011
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I bought this book in an attempt to try to make sense of how I should feel, regarding the iminent death of our son, David, he has recently been diagnosed with an inoperasble benign brain tumour, it had started to bleed into his brain, he had got very weak within weeks. He is now in a residential nursing home. He is 36 years of age. I felt as if I was already grieving for him, although he is still with us. The matron of the home suggested it to me. I found all of the feelings I had had, and have, are quite normal, that I was not going mad! It covers diagnosis through to death. I have already found this book helpful and I'm sure in years to come when I look at it from time to time, it will continue to be so.
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I recently trained to become a bereavement support volunteer with the charity Cruse, and I read this book during my training. I found it really good read and deepened my understanding about attitudes towards death, and all the complications around it.

Highly recommended to anyone doing bereavement work.
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