This profound and eloquent book brings together health professionals and distinguished authorities in the humanities to reflect on medical, cultural, and religious responses to death. Physicians and other caregivers describe their expereinces witnessing death, and theologians, historians, anthropolgists, literary scholars, and pastors tell how other cultures and religions preceive death and mourn. For medical personal and for patients, this collection affirms that death is less an adversary than a defining part of life.
