TY - BOOK ID - 136046382 TI - Life's end : technocratic dying in an age of spiritual yearning. PY - 1999 SN - 0895032023 PB - Amityville Baywood DB - UniCat KW - Death KW - Thanatology KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136046382 AB - Analyzes dying and death in the cosmopolitan setting. While providing a portrait of dying, this book also tells us a great deal about life. It demonstrates that the foundation for the medicalization of death that shapes the life experience of dying persons and loved ones is a product of the ways of life in the broader culture. The explicit purpose of this book is to analyze dying and death in the cosmopolitan, modern setting. There is, however, an additional theme that is implicit in the analysis and observations. The portrait of dying, which is provided in the pages of the book, also tells us a great deal about life. It demonstrates that the foundation for the medicalization of death that piercingly shapes the life experience of dying persons and loved ones is a product of the ways of life in the broader culture. ER -