TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prado,C.G.
TI  - Coping with choices to die 
SN  - 9780521132480 (pbk.)
AV  - HV6545.2 .P658 2011
U1  - 362.283 PRA/Cop 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Older people
KW  - Suicidal behavior
KW  - Suicide
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Euthanasia
KW  - psychology
KW  - Suicide, Assisted
KW  - Attitude to Death
KW  - Cross-Cultural Comparison
KW  - Right to Die
KW  - ethics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword: emotions, feelings, and thoughts / by Wesley Boston -- Laying the groundwork -- Feelings: their influences and control -- Culture's elusive role -- Revising the criterion for rational elective death -- Two philosophical challenges -- Survivors' responses -- Accepting finality -- Appendix: belief in an afterlife
N2  - "This book examines the reactions of the friends and family of those who elect to die due to terminal illness.  These surviving spouses, partners, relatives, and friends, in addition to coping  with the death of a loved one, must also deal with the loved one's decision to die, thus severing the relationship.  C. G. Prado examines how reactions to elective death are influenced by cultural influences and beliefs, particularly those related to life, death, and the possibility of an afterlife.  Understanding the role of these cultural influences on the grieving processes of survivors is a crucial step in allowing them to accept both intellectually and emotionally the finality of elective death and to deal with the decision of their loved one"--
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