Dealing with Death: Practices and procedures

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Customs and Laws....Pages 3-12
Medical certification of cause of death....Pages 13-22
Registration of death....Pages 23-31
Coroners and coroner’s inquiries....Pages 32-46
Stillbirth and death in infancy — certification and registration....Pages 47-53
The autopsy and mortuary practice....Pages 54-63
Funeral direction and disposal by burial....Pages 64-72
Disposal by cremation....Pages 73-79
Organ and tissue donation, transplantation and dissection....Pages 80-88
The law and practice of exhumation....Pages 89-93
Fatal mass disasters....Pages 94-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Palliative care....Pages 103-113
Last offices....Pages 114-123
Bereavement....Pages 124-129
The control of infection in life and in death....Pages 130-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Christianity and the Sacraments....Pages 149-150
The Anglican Church (The Church in Wales, The Church in Ireland, The Episcopalian Church in Scotland)....Pages 151-154
The Roman Catholic Church....Pages 155-158
Free churches and other churches....Pages 159-161
Jehovah’s Witnesses....Pages 162-168
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
The Mormon Church....Pages 169-174
Christian Science....Pages 175-179
The Afro-Caribbean community....Pages 180-183
Rastafarianism....Pages 184-187
Buddhism....Pages 188-191
The Baha’i faith....Pages 192-193
The Jewish faith....Pages 194-204
Islam....Pages 205-212
Hinduism....Pages 213-219
Sikhism....Pages 220-225
Zoroastrians (Parsees)....Pages 226-230
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)....Pages 231-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-274