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Insights into Dying, 2007.
A discussion of "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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The paper looks at "Tuesdays with Morrie", which is about the relationship between Morrie Schwartz and the author of the book, Mitch Albom. The author spends Tuesdays with Morrie, a retired professor who is dying from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. The paper discusses how the book offers several insights into the dying process. The paper discusses how the story of Morrie shows the human side of dying and how the dying individual has strong emotional needs. It also shows how older individuals have wisdom to offer and do not necessarily experience mental decline. The paper illustrates how helping an individual through death is an emotional and difficult experience, yet it is crucial and also rewarding.
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"The book describes the decline of Morrie, how he deals with the fact that he is dying, and his eventual death. This part of the book changed how I viewed the dying process. My view of the dying process is that it is a depressing situation for all involved and a process where the dying person suffers and struggles. Certainly, Morrie was suffering and struggling in some ways. However, he also seemed to have the ability to cope reasonably well with the reality of his death. He seemed aware that trying to fight the reality of death would only limit the quality of the life he had left."
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"On Death and Dying", 2002.
This paper is a review of Keebler-Ross? book on the stages of death, ?On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families?.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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This paper outlines what the book was about, offers some criticism of the text and explains what was learned from book.
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Death and Dying, 1978.
This paper discusses the Existential and humanistic approaches to death and dying, the history of ideas and treatment of dying (by Christians, Hindus, Buddhists), world literature, stages of dying, fallacies and fears.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 10 sources, £ 68.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the existential and humanistic approach to death and dying. It will briefly discuss attitudes toward death throughout the history of man's various civilizations and religions. Primarily, the paper will deal with the ideas concerning death which have been held by existentialists who have been involved in the treatment of the dying and others who have been involved in death solely as members of mankind - and therefore as ones who must face it at sometime themselves.
The idea of immortality has been common to most of man's answers regarding the consequences to the dead person of having died. The ancient Mesopotamians believed in a dismal underworld full of misery. The ancient Egyptians, on the other hand, believed that death could contain all the comforts and amusements .... "
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Death and Dying, 2006.
A discussion on death and dying and why the topic of death and dying has become sequestrated in modern times from normal social times.
1,612 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 37.95
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This paper discusses how the subject of death and dying in Western industrialized nations is seen as taboo. The paper goes on to explain how attitudes towards death in Eastern cultures and traditions, on the other hand, are essentially different and that there is a greater integration and cultural acceptance of death, particularly in the Tibetan tradition. The paper then refers to various literary works on the subject to highlight various attitudes about death and dying.
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"However, the process of sanitizing and sequestering death does not solve by any means the real and existential problem of death as the most inevitable and sure aspect of any individual's life. One cannot simply ignore death. As a result of the movement in Western Countries and cultures towards a materialistic and secular mode of existence, the fear of death and the end of life has in fact been exacerbated, rather then reduced. This has led to many psychological and philosophical issues that have tended to dominate cultural discourse in the last few decades. The fact that medical science is being shown to be incapable of dealing with many disease and causes of human death has also opened up the fault lines and questioned the scientific and medical attempts to sanitize and prevent the public from being concerned about death. "
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Process of Dying, 2001.
Compares & contrasts two books: "Dying Well" (I. Byock) & "On Death and Dying" (E. Kubler-Ross).
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, £ 33.95
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"Issues on Death and Dying
Introduction
In comparing and contrasting these two books - Dying Well and On Death and Dying - what is immediately apparent is that these books are complementary, rather than contradictory. They both focus on the individual process of dying, while they both find that there are common or typical issues that face dying individuals and their family members. Both emphasize that growth can occur through the process, and that people can die well if they are willing to go through the process with open minds and hearts. There are many other similarities and certainly some differences in their focus, and the lessons the authors drew from their experiences."
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Law of Dying Declarations in India, 2004.
An overview of the issues concerning the legality of dying declarations in India.
3,796 words (approx. 15.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 74.95
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This paper attempts to track the important developments in the law relating to dying declarations, concentrating specifically on sub-section 1 of 32 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Section 32 (1) of Indian Evidence Act, 1872. It looks at how the logic behind allowing dying declarations is that the character of the statement and the subject to which it refers indicate that it is reasonable to expect the highest degree of truth possible in the circumstances and the incentive or desire to falsify the statement is practically non-existence.
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Introduction
History of Dying Declarations
Hearsay Evidence
Essentials of Dying Declaration
Court Proceedings
Attendance of Witnesses
Who May Testify?
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"The greater portion of the law of evidence is concerned with the rules that gradually have grown up in the courts respecting persons who may testify, and the manner in which their testimony may be given. Keep in mind that the sole objective of the rules of evidence is to arrive at the truth. A witness testifies regarding his or her knowledge of the facts as a matter of public duty, and only with the imposition of conditions the law authorizes. An example of an unauthorized condition would be an agreement to pay a witness additional compensation exceeding that authorized by law for his or her testimony."
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Death and Dying.
This paper is a personal, experiential, explication essay on the notion of death and dying, which the author faced during his father's five-year fight against esophageal cancer and eventual death.
5,930 words (approx. 23.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 100.95
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This paper explains that the idea of death and dying is abhorrent; yet, in the case of the author's father, his dying and death was a process of renewal for him, for the author, for the author's mother, and siblings and members of the vast family of seventeen children into which his father was born. The author points out that he does fear death, not the actual act of dying, but knowing of the incompleteness it brings. The paper explains that Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's formalism on the stages in death and dying helped him to put his grief in a better context and to categorize his feelings.
Table of Content
Introduction
Individual Coping Strategies
Differential Treatment from Others
The Will to Live
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"The concepts of heaven and hell have evolved over time. This extends for all major religions. Practitioners are admonished to seek good over evil for fear that they might face the fires of hell in the scary and graphic detail elaborately laid out by Dante in the "Inferno." It is not the hell fire and brimstone of the time of the awakening as Christian dogma evolved in the United States. Even the pope has spoken about heaven and hell actually being experienced here on earth, through how a person conducts his or her life. Going back to the differences between eastern and western thought of dying can be summed up in the concepts of Sogyal Rinpoche. In his "Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" he puts forth the idea that Tibetans believe that the best way to live ones life to the fullest is to spend every waking moment of it preparing to die. Such a morbid fascination with death would have no place in the western thought. And yet there is some truth to it."
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Death and Dying Course, 2006.
This paper discusses the value and merits of a death and dying course.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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The writer raises the issue of having a friend as a nurse who seems to be falling apart on her job and she is thinking about taking a death and dying course. The writer would you recommend participating in such a course. The writer points out that nurses experience grief when they see patients die that they have taken care of in the past few weeks or even months. Further, the writer believes that encouraging her to take a death and dying course might make the difference in whether the nurse leaves her position and/or decides to take another career.
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"You have a friend who is a nurse, and you notice the nurse is acting differently. The nurse is falling apart in her job working in the high mortality setting in her placement. She is thinking of leaving the profession of nursing but is deciding whether or not to take a death and dying course, do you advise her to take the course or not? Imagine taking care of patients day after day who are terminal and eventually die. Most nurses try not to show their feelings around patients and families."
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Nursing the Dying Muslim Patient, 2007.
An analysis of the issues for nurses who are caring for a dying Muslim patient.
727 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, £ 18.95
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This paper discusses Muslim beliefs and rituals surrounding death and dying. It specifically looks at these issues in regards to nursing care and the accommodations that nurses need to make for their Muslim patients and their families. Finally, the paper looks at changes in hospital policies and social and political policies with regard to Muslim patients who are dying.
Table of Contents:
Implications for Nursing Practice
Areas for Further Nursing Inquiry
Changes in Hospital and Hospice Policy
Social and Political Policies
Relevant Implications for Changes in Policy
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"Privacy is a major issue for Muslims, as washing is required prior to the five times of daily praying. Nurses should be aware of festivals and holy days and acknowledge them to the patient (Sarhill, et al., 2001). All nurses must have knowledge of Muslim beliefs, which will enhance communication and improve health care as well as reduce the possibility of conflict. There are certain highly sensitive aspects of death and dying so that great cultural sensitivity is required on the part of nurses. The time and tasks which are most susceptible to conflict that can easily result in grave family distress and conflict involve the care of the body after death."
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"Dying", 2007.
An analysis of Emily Dickinson's "Dying".
870 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 21.95
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This paper presents a detailed examination of the theme of loss and dying using the Emily Dickinson poem called "Dying". The writer examines the poem and its exploration of loss and death and explains why the poem has become a classic.
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Introduction
Theme
References
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"When one reads this stanza one can imagine the finality of death. One can almost visualize the body lying on the ground with a fly moving in before the body is cold and buzzing as it ascertains whether or not to land. It seems to dovetail with the stage of grief called depression. The author in this stanza does not seem to care what happens and is speaking about death in a matter of fact manner that can be heard in the mind's ear as a monotone."
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Cultural Reactions to Death and Dying, 2005.
A discussion of the various cultural responses to death and dying.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, APA, £ 45.95
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This essay discusses the various perceptions and responses to death and dying across multiple cultures (American, Hindu, Buddhist, and Native American). The paper also applies Kubler-Ross' five stages of dying as a theoretical framework.
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"This research explores the literature across cultures on death and dying in order to highlight the impact of culture on reactions to death and the dying process. A theoretical framework is established using Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of dying followed by a succinct discussion of the reactions and attitudes toward death and the dying process of four cultures: Buddhist Hindu, Native American and American. By illustrating the different reactions and attitudes toward death of these cultures it is revealed that..."
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William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying", 2006.
A look at the themes explored in William Faulkner's novel "As I Lay Dying".
1,104 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper explores the theme about the search for structure and meaning in world that seems to have neither, in William Faulkner's novel, "As I Lay Dying". The paper also explores the more obvious theme about death and dying and explains that Faulkner explores these themes through the various perspectives and subjective thoughts of the characters in the novel.
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"As mentioned, the search for identity is emphasized by the central theme of death and dying. The proximity of death and dying throughout the novel (Addie's slowly decaying corpse) emphasizes the search for meaning in the face of death. It also reminds us that we are in a continual process of dying. The novel also plays on various underlying metaphorical connotations. This is alluded to by Vardaman's attempt to understand his mother's death. He cannot conceive of her death rationally and sees her as a "Fish" which he has eaten. This image also has ironic connotations of resurrection and rebirth which underpins much of the central meaning of the work. In this regard some critics ( Swiggart P. 1962) view the novel in a mock- heroic light. From this perspective the book has the outward appearance of a heroic journey to bury the mother. There are also heroic characteristics to the novel in that the family faces dangers such as floods and fire. However the heroic is undercut by the often petty and selfish motives of the family."
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"As I Lay Dying", 2002.
A literary review of "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner.
2,259 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 49.95
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This paper explores the various themes in William Faulkner's novel "As I Lay Dying". The writer believes that the dead central character is typically thematic of voodoo cultures that existed in Mississippi?s colorful history. Another theme explored is that of the oral tradition in the old South, where the writer looks at the folklore and cultures of the people living in Mississippi. The paper also explores the overall theme of death and dying.
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"?As I Lay Dying? is a unique novel in that there is no discernable protagonist. In lieu of the protagonist is a corpse, Addie, who is dead for most of the book. The novel is written in the first person, from the perspective of Addie and her family, although the perspective shifts for most of the chapters between Addie?s self-interested family members with Addie herself only contributing one chapter. Addie?s dying wish is to be buried in Jackson, and the story is about how she makes it there. Although Addie is not alive for much of the novel, her son Jewell reflects her interests after she?s dead and acts as her legacy."
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"On Death and Dying", 2004.
Records first hand experience with the stages outlined in Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's "On Death and Dying".
927 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 23.95
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This paper gives an account of the author's personal experience of watching a loved one die from cancer and how the victim of the cancer, as well as her loved ones, experienced the stages as outlined in Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's book, "On Death and Dying".
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"Josianne was diagnosed with uterine cancer a year and a half ago, prompting a hysterectomy and subsequent radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Because the success rates for treatment of her particular cancer seemed relatively high, her friends and loved ones remained hopeful that Josianne, too, would be among the nearly 75% who survived the ordeal. Josianne, a lawyer in her late forties, was the most optimistic and didn?t for a second feel that death was near. However, once her tract of radiation and chemo was over, doctors administered a series of tests, which revealed that the cancer had somehow spread into her lymph glands. The spread spelled almost certain death; once the cancer made its way into the lymphatic system, little could be done to halt its progress. We all watched on as tumors showed up in Josianne?s cat scans, appearing in her lungs and colon and forcing her to have a colostomy and continual blood transfusions. Until that point, Josianne and her husband kept their hopes high that somehow she would overcome the illness and experience a spontaneous remission. However, her body began to deteriorate rapidly after a certain point; she could no longer eat and her kidneys began to fail."
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