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General Resources
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Encyclopedia of Death and Dying 
 Collection of articles on health, religious, and cultural issues related to death and dying. Searchable, or browsable by topic such as abortion, advance directives, Charon and the River Styx, Days of the Dead, end-of-life issues, Jack Kevorkian, suicide, and wakes. From Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. http://www.deathreference.com Topics: Death & Dying Last updated Feb 7, 2007 MedlinePlus: End of Life Issues
Includes information on coping, advanced care planning, feeding tubes and ventilators, health care choices, palliative care, finances, funeral arrangements, and "What To Do Before and After the Moment of Death." Some material in Spanish. From the National Library of Medicine (NLM). http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/endoflifeissues.html Topics: Death & Dying, Long-term Care Last updated May 15, 2005 Reverent Remembrance: Honoring the Dead
Companion to an exhibit that "explore[s] the ancient Celtic roots of Halloween, the colorful Mexican Day of the Dead, mummification and other death rituals in ancient Egypt, Indonesian cliff burials, and modern American memorials, including those following the 9/11 tragedy." The site includes descriptions of activities and beliefs, exhibit handouts, and links to related sites. From the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/RR/ Topics: Death & Dying, Holidays and Observances Individually Last updated Oct 16, 2006 Seeing the Difference: A Project on Viewing Death and Dying in Interdisciplinary Perspective
"Artists, humanists, and medical professionals discuss what it means to die in America in the 21st century." Contains transcripts and video of excerpts from a 2000 U.C. Berkeley institute designed to "work toward the conceptualization of new forms of empathy towards those who face imminent death" by sharing perceptions of death across disciplines. Includes links to related sites. From the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley. http://seeingthedifference.berkeley.edu/ Topics: Death & Dying Last updated Aug 15, 2006 Yahoo! Directory: Death and Dying
An easy-to-use directory of topics dealing with a wide range of death and dying issues, organized alphabetically and by categories. It includes topics such as beliefs, practices, funerals, euthanasia, cemeteries, obituaries, AIDS, and suicide; while some other topics include the morbid, bizarre, or unusual such as morbid humor, hearses-for-hire in parades, bull-riding memorials, pet-loss support groups, etc. http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Death_and_Dying/ Topics: Death & Dying, Social Issues Last updated Jun 29, 2005 |
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