This profound and eloquent book brings together health professionals and distinguished authorities in the humanities
to reflect on medical, cultural, and religious responses to death. Physicians and other caregivers describe their
experiences witnessing death, and theologians, historians, anthropologists, literary scholars, and pastors tell
how other cultures and religions perceive death and mourn. For medical personnel and for patients, this collection
affirms that death is less an adversary than a defining part of life.