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This book is a sequel to “Awareness for Dying” and focuses on the temporal aspects of dying in hospitals. Dying takes varying amounts of time, from sudden to excessive lingering. The social psychological events that take place during dying as a temporal process given professional codes and training and hospital prescribed work are explored and woven into a theory of status passage.

CONTENT

Chapter 1

Dying trajectories

Chapter 2

Sudden Death: A case of suicide

Chapter 3

Initial definitions of the dying trajectory

Chapter 4

Lingering trajectories: Institutional dying

Chapter 5

Lingering trajectories: At home and in hospitals

Chapter 6

The expected quick trajectory

Chapter 7

The unexpected quick trajectory

Chapter 8

Last weeks an days

Chapter 9

Finding the dying trajectory

Chapter 10

After death in the hospital

Chapter 11

Time, structural processes and status passage

Chapter 12

Improving the care of the dying

Appendix