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Death with dignity : significance of religious beliefs and practices in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam
1. Nurses can help individuals more readily deal with death and dying by examining cultural variations in death reactions and rituals. This helps to humanize care. 2. Caring for a dying client is a co...
A spiritual response to the challenge of routinization : a dialogue of discourses in a Buddhist-initiated hospice
The hospice vision of providing democratic and humane care of the dying needs to be operationalized in the "real world" of health care bureaucracies. It is at this interface between idealists and the ...
The last 48 hours of life : a case study of symptom control for a patient taking a Buddhist approach to dying
Caring for a patient dying of cancer can, at times, be extremely difficult. Sarah was 39 years old when she died, survived by her husband and two children aged 6 and 4 years. During the weeks leading ...
Being present : experiential connections between Zen Buddhist practices and the grieving process
The Zen Buddhist contemplative tradition involves several meditation and instructional techniques that have strong phenomenological and theoretical connections with the experience of loss and the proc...
Tibetan Buddhism and the resolution of grief : the bardo-thodol for the dying and the grieving
This article is a contribution to the cross-cultural study of grief. The Bardo-thodol (sometimes translated the Tibetan Book of the Dead) and the ritual associated with it provides a way to understand...
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