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Death and Dying, Life and Living

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I am a medical social worker on a Unit which has a high mortality rate because of the nature of the illness for which patients are admitted. I have also lectured on "Death and Dying." I have found this book to be of immense value: accurate, well-written and direct. I often recommend it to my students and colleagues. I don't recommend sitting down and reading it cover to cover. I find it is much more helpful to choose the chapters most relevant for my purpose (an individual patient or situation; research, etc.) I definitely recommend it.

While I am an undergraduate student in psychology, I have been blessed with a highly supportive professor that permitted me entrance into his Introduction to Thanatology graduate course. This book allowed me an immediate understanding that was both in depth and easy to digest.

Many texts on the subject of death and dying skirt the subject with veiled euphemisms. They often attempt to soften the reality of death in both its physical nature and historical context, however, this publication does neither. It is direct, informative, and, even for a required reading, difficult to put down. It says quite a bit about the authors of this book that they not only come so highly recommended by my professor (who is also a published author in this field), but also by the group of students being tested on its content. Very well done!

The authors have done an excellent job presenting a difficult and complex topic. Their discussions of the historical, multicultural, and life cycle attitudes toward death and dying are important contributions to the literature. The two negative reviews here by students are perplexing. Indeed, this book may be one of the best available for the classroom. Too, if you're looking for an excellent bibliography on the subject, this is the book to use.

How do I even start on this book? A text for a class in college I bought this book looking forward to it, despite the drear subject. As the class progressed I found this book to contain contradicting information in many areas. In addition to this, the graphs are completely unintelligible, even our prof. gave up trying to make sense of them. The book also doesn't discuss the psychology of dying, but rather the practical aspects and biology of dying. As this class was a soc/psy class, this wasn't very helpful. If you're a prof. considering this text- please think again!

This is one of my required textbooks for school, but it has been quite interesting. If you are looking to have a career in psychology, you will most likely need this textbook.

Please can you guys return my money back, I had sent back your book but my money is not put back in my account.

This was in top notch condition and mailed in a very timely fashion. Excellent service.

I was really looking forward to the class this book was necessary for. And while I learned a lot of interesting material, almost none of it was from the text. Nothing that i'm going to carry away from this class was learned from the book. While it gave the trival bits of information that were located in the test material, most of those you could gather from simple common sense. If you want to get anything out of a class using this as a text, hope your prof. likes to lecture. Otherwise... you're really going to hate it.

In times past I had good things to say about Amazon. but I have been waiting on my textbook since Feburary 17, 2010.

What happen to my order? When can I get a refund?

STILL WAITING

I recieved the book in a timely manner and it was close to new. i so appreciate it!!!!and it was a good price too...