How to Approach Death

Tugendhat, Julia

ISBN 10: 0859699900 / ISBN 13: 9780859699907

Published by Sheldon Press, London UK, 2007

About this Item

95pp, appendix of useful addresses included. The author describes how thoughtful preparation can make a huge difference both to ourselves and to our friends and family. She discusses the practical, psychological and spritual ways in which we can make our own deaths as 'good' as possible. Topics covered include attitudes to death and how they have changed; options available for end-of-life care; how to deal with the loss of a relative or friend; how to make wills and living wills; and how to plan funerals and memorials.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Approach Death
• Publisher: Sheldon Press, London UK
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859699900
• ISBN 13: 9780859699907
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Self-help
  • Health
  • Death and Dying

About this title

Synopsis

How do we talk about death? With reluctance, it seems. While we are fully aware of death on a social level, for example witnessing violent killings on television, we have become increasingly shy of communicating about death on a personal level. For example, while a general bookshop is crammed with cheerful and informative books about pregnancy and birth, in comparison, the number of general or self-help books on death and dying is negligible. Off the screen few of us will have witnessed a death or seen a corpse. Death has become frightening and unfamiliar. But, we are being forced as individuals and as a society to pay more attention to the issue because as medical science becomes ever more sophisticated, we are living longer and our deaths are becoming more protracted. The number of people over 65 in the UK and US will increase by one-third in the next ten years. Therefore we need to inform and prepare ourselves better so that we can take more control of what is likely to be the most challenging and demanding phase of our lives. By dealing with dying and death in an open, honest and practical way this book seeks to address the confusion and the contemporary taboos and denial around it.

About the Author

Julia Tugendhat is a psychotherapist based in London. She is a former vice-president of the British Association for Counselling and Therapy.