Culture of Death Denial: Relevant or Rhetoric in Medical Education? | Journal of Palliative
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As a society and as individuals, we have come to recognize ourselves as 'death‐denying', a
self‐characterisation particularly prominent in palliative care discourse and practice. As part …

Death education is passing over the invisible threshold to social acceptance. This “success,”
however, brings a new set of risks. Focus in this article is upon the possibility that death …

Although most areas of human experience are nowadays discussed freely and openly, the
subject of death is still surrounded by conventional attitudes and reticence that offer only …

It has become commonplace to say that contemporary western society is' deathdenying '.
This characterization, which sociologists have termed the'denial of death thesis ', first arose …

AS A CLINICIAN it seems disrespectful to discuss the “meaning and value” of death. The
preciousness of life underlies all clinical disciplines and preservation of life is a paramount …

Purpose: To evaluate the perception of attending physicians, medical residents, and
undergraduate medical students about death and dying, the end of life (EoL), and palliative …

Problem: The education of medical students and house staffre garding management of
death and timely discussions of death with patients and families has been deficient, leaving …

In 1998, I established Australia's first academic palliative care unit devoted to a public health
approach to end-of-life care. In academic terms, this palliative care emphasized the …

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring
of human activity-activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by …