title: Is dying being worked to death?
abstract: In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of books and articles on death and dying. The ambivalence of some writers regarding the value of this proliferation of papers led the author to review and evaluate this literature; he found seven overlapping categories of death-related literature that were of both theoretical and practical value. He briefly explores possible reasons for the rise in this subject's popularity.
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D003643:Death; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans