Death Notification: A Practical Guide to the Process

If it is your job to notify a family that a death has occurred-or is soon expected-how do you do it right? Using vivid examples, Leash guides the reader through this difficult task in a wide variety of situations. His research and personal experience will help you to meet the family's needs in a constructive, helpful way-and to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that can compound the tragedy. Important reading for physicians, nurses, emergency personnel, clergy, law enforcement, military, and social workers.

R. Moroni Leash has a long background as a grief and crisis counselor. During the period of research for this book he served as a psychiatric evaluator for the Univesity of California, Davis, Medical Center, which at the time served as the biggest trauma center in the U.S.