RT Journal
A1 Miksanek T
T1 The study of dying: From autonomy to transformation
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2010
FD March 3
VO 303
IS 9
SP 887
OP 887
DO 10.1001/jama.2010.246
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.246
AB 
The process of dying can be complicated and influenced by many factors—physical, cultural, spiritual, and psychological. The Study of Dying scrutinizes the course of dying from almost every perspective imaginable: historical, demographic, philosophical, religious, artistic, social, behavioral, literary, cinematic, and biomedical. Additionally, editor Allan Kellehear has identified 7 recurring themes related to the conduct of dying. These concepts are issues of personal control, withdrawal, fluctuation, collapse, disenfranchisement, transformation, and dying as a journey. As a death-centric tome, The Study of Dying uses some distinctive terminology: proto-corpse, religious slaughter, convenience euthanasia, verbal autopsy, and dirty dying.