Death and dying in contemporary society: An evaluation of current attitudes and the rituals associated with death and dying and their relevance to recent understandings of health and healing

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1127-1135

  O'Gorman, Stella Mary ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Death; Dying; Education; Funerals; Holistic; Modern; Mourning; Primitive; Rituals; Society

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HISTORY; HUMAN; IRELAND; POSTHUMOUS CARE; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; ENGLAND; FUNERAL RITES; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; IRELAND;

EID: 0032089149     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00659.x     Document Type: Article

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