Information for JINS 332 Death and Dying Class 

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  Library of Congress Subject Headings for Death. See also the narrower term Bereavement

  2 -- See also the narrower term Children and death

  3 -- See also the narrower term Children Death

  4 -- See also the narrower term Dead

  5 -- See also the narrower term Fetal death

  6 -- See also the narrower term Mortality --subdivision Mortality under individual animals, diseases, classes of persons, and ethnic groups for works that list or discuss the number of deaths during a given time due to a particular cause or occurring in a particular group, e.g. Fishes--Mortality; Cancer--Mortality

  7 -- See also the narrower term Pets Death

  8 -- See also the narrower term Right to die

  9 -- See also Terminal care

  10 -- See also Terminally ill

  11 -- See also Thanatology

  12 -- See also the narrower term Youth and death

   

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      Caprio, A.J. (2008, April). Pain dyspnea and the quality of dying in long-term care. Journal of the American
              Geriatrics Society 56 (4), 683-688.

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