Abstract
‘I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.’ This fairly well known quotation by Woody Allen summarizes, I feel, most of our attitudes to death.
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Brown, P. (1982). The Dying, the Dead and the Bereaved. In: The Other Side of Growing Older. The ‘New Approaches to Care’ Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17026-5_8
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