Maintenance of Life: Preventing Social Death Through Euthanasia Talk and End-Of-Life Care Lessons for the Netherlands

by Frances Norwood

The landscape of death and dying has changed. Today, death most often does not happen in an instant, it is more typically a long process of life mixed in with decline and social losses that eventually and sometimes many years after an initial onset of terminal or serious illness culminates in some combination of social and biological death. British sociologist Clive Seale (1998) suggests that changes in death and dying have been accompanied by changing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594605181
• ISBN13: 9781594605185
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"