Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in
documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical …

Abstract 'Virtual memorials' intended to memorialize the lives of children imply significant
shifts in the conceptualization of death, particularly for grieving parents. Created by parents …

Dying and Death in Canada provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of dying,
death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective. The fourth edition covers current …

Dying the Good Death is a unique ethnography, the first to focus on the experiences of dying
at the end of the life cycle. In a region of northern India, some people at the end of their lives …

One of the longest-lived communal societies in North America, the Hutterites have
developed multifaceted communitarian perspectives on everything from conflict resolution …

Nestled in more than 5,000 acres of farmland in rural South Dakota, one Hutterian colony
flourishes with more than 23 families and a population of 115 people. Very little is known …

The Hutterites are a closed ethnoreligious community whose funeral traditions have
remained unchanged for centuries. Few researchers have had the opportunity to study this …

I am concerned with the manner in which an almost exclusive focus on the individual has
been part of a more general process that increasingly marginalizes the most vulnerable …

This chapter applies the discussions of cross-cultural health care ethics to health care
institutions' efforts to support persons in end-of-life decisions through the provision of …

Closed religious groups are a part of our society, but oftentimes there is a limited
understanding of their unique beliefs and practices in relation to death and dying. Based on …