Abstract
Contemplating the approaching death of his elderly father in 1952, Dylan Thomas wrote: ‘Do not go gentle into that good night; Old age should burn and rave at close of day — Rage, rage against the dying of the light.’
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Saunders, C, Care of the dying, Nursing Times, 72, 1976. Quoted in Carver, V. and Liddiard, P. (editors), An Ageing Population, Open University Press, 1978
Parkes, C. M., Psychological aspects. In Saunders, C. M. S. (editor), The Management of Terminal Illness, Arnold, 1978
Further reading
Jury, M. and Jury, D., Gramp, Grossman, 1976 [depiction in words and photographs of a family’s loving support for their dying grandfather]
Robbins, J. (editor), Care of the Dying Patient and the Family, Lippincott Nursing Series, Harper and Row, 1982
Collins, S. and Parker, E., Essentials of Nursing: An Introduction, Macmillan, 1987
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Garrett, G. (1987). Dying and death. In: Health Needs of the Elderly. The Essentials of Nursing. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09486-8_15
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