Dealing with Death: Practice and Procedure

Includes Bibliographical references and Index

Part 1 Legal and technical aspects: customs and laws; medical certification of cause of death; registration of death; coroners and coroner's inquiries; stillbirth and death in infancy - certification and registration; the autopsy and mortuary practice; funeral direction and disposal by burial; disposal by cremation; organ and tissue donation and transplantation; the law and practice of exhumation; fatal mass disasters. Part 2 Considerations for the living, care of the dying, and death with dignity: palliative care; last offices; bereavement; the control of infection in life and in death. Part 3 Religious, ethnic and cultural aspects of dying and death: Christianity and the Sacraments; the Anglican Church (the Church in Wales, the Church in Ireland, the Episcopalian Church in Scotland); the Roman Catholic Church; free Churches and other Churches; Jehovah's witnesses; the Mormon Church; Christian Science; the Afro-Caribbean community; Rastafarianism; the Jewish faith; Buddhism; the Baha'i faith; Islam; Hinduism; Sikhism; Zoroastrians (Parsees); AIDS. Appendices: Organizations which may be able to offer help with various aspects of death; U.K. departments of forensic medicine.

A reference source to the complex procedures required when someone dies. Combining medico-legal facts and practical advice, it covers legal and technical aspects; considerations for the living, care of the dying and death with dignity; and religious, ethnic and cultural aspects.