DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT This essay examines death, bereavement, and the disposal of the dead through its social-psychological, historical, cross cultural, medical-ethical, and public policy aspects from the perspective of both the dying person and survivors. In its examination this course divided death and bereavement into the following five concepts and theories: 1) The stages of death and bereavement as outlined by Kubler-Ross. 2) Social implications, norms, and institutions that relate to death and dying in our society, i.e., Western attitudes toward death, historically and in contemporary times. 3) Cross-cultural, subcultural, ethnicity, and religious differences in dealing with death, bereavement, and disposal. 4) Medical-ethical issues such as the right to die, euthanasia, medical inte....

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