Exploring End of Life Experience

The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death - Jenny Diski, Philip Gould, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor.

Dr Helen Besemeres is a retired psychoanalyst and family therapist, with a PhD in Education from Monash University, Melbourne.

1.Death: An Introduction. 2.Death as Enigma. 3.Thanatology: Reflections on the Meaning of Death. 4.Learning from the Dying. 5.Reacting to the News: Diagnosis. 6.Living with Dying. 7.Acceptance. 8.Themes in the Experience of the Dying. 9.Conclusions.