title: [Thoughts on dying and death in literature].
abstract: About 35 novels, stories and poems from some 10 countries were evaluated by the author in order to show how differently the subject of dying and death is treated in such literary works. Special attention is given to both dying in a hospital and to helping people to face death.
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D003643:Death; D005060:Europe; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D010684:Philosophy
vernacular_title: Gedanken zu Sterben und Tod in der Belletristik.