Research Catalog

Title

Concerning death : a practical guide for the living / edited by Earl A. Grollman.

Publication

Boston : Beacon Press, c1974.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Grollman, Earl A.

Description

xviii, 365 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Beacon paperbacks ; 484

Subject

• Funeral Rites
• Attitude to Death
• Death > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Death
• Funeral rites and ceremonies > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc

Genre/Form

Handbooks and manuals

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Grief / Edgar N. Jackson -- Care of the dying person / N.H. Cassem -- The doctor, fatal illness, and the family / Melvin J. Krant -- Children and death / Earl A. Grollman -- The Protestant way in death and mourning / Merle R. Jordan -- The Roman Catholic way in death and mourning / Richard J. Butler -- The Jewish way in death and mourning / Earl A. Grollman -- The law and death / Matthew H. Ross -- Insurance and death / Andrew J. Lyons -- The coroner and death / Cyril H. Wecht -- The funeral and the funeral director / Howard C. Raether and Robert C. Slater -- How to select a cemetery / Willam Morgan -- Choosing a memorial / Ian R. Winters -- To cremate or not / Paul Irion -- Organ donation and transplantation / Benjamin A. Barnes -- The condolence or sympathy call / Regina Flesch -- The condolence letter / Edgar N. Jackson -- The widow and widower / Robert L. Buchanan -- What you should know about suicide / Earl A. Grollman -- Death education in the face of a taboo / Sandra L. Bertman.

ISBN

0807027650

LCCN

^^^73017117^

OCLC

• 723005
• SCSB-14240408

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library