Dying in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well

by Lydia S. Dugdale

Book Overview

Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century. Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the early fifteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church published the Ars moriendi texts, which established prayers and practices for an art of dying. In the twenty-first century,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026202912X
• ISBN13: 9780262029124
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher