Death, Distress, and Solidarity

Download or read book Death, Distress, and Solidarity written by Robert Kastenbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In preparing this special issue of "Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying" - we choose to consider solidarity in a somewhat larger perspective than the other one usually adopted by a clear majority of social support studies. This perspective gives priority to microscopic, immediate, direct transactions between a focal individual - the one affected by the prospect of soon to come death and two classes of people: those included in the core of that person's personal network and the health care personnel treating and accompanying soon to die people, many of them already advanced into agony.