Death and Bereavement

What is death?; Western attitudes to death; reincarnation and rebirth; the cult of the ancestors; African and Afro-Caribbean beliefs and customs; Jewish and Muslim funeral and mourning customs; the funeral rites of Christians; new religions and new sects; the reburial issue; Freud, mourning and death; Jung and self-realization; Shakespeare, death and grief; dying - the last months; caring for the dying; bereavement - the basics; bereavement - medical and social issues; the death of a child; a child's response to death; suicide; euthanasia and assisted suicide; the death of a pet; the bereaved and the living-dead.