Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-216)

When illness is prolonged: implications for grief / Kenneth J. Doka -- Fading away during terminal illness: implications for bereavement in family members / Betty Davies -- Living and learning the reality of a loved one's dying: traumatic stress and cognitive processing in anticipatory grief / Therese A. Rando -- Hard decisions in hard times: making ethical choices during prolonged illness / David M. Price -- Hospice care and its effect on the grieving process / William Lamers, Jr. -- The story of Miss Mildred: her living and dying / Annette Dula -- Death from the cancers / Stephen P. Hersh -- Modulated mourning: the grief and mourning of those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS / Inge B. Corless -- Systemic understandings of loss and grief related to Alzheimer's disease / Carol Williams and Brenda Moretta

Coping with long-term illness and death in an adult: the impact on grieving children and adolescents / Charles A. Corr -- A decalogue: ten commandments for the concerned caregiver / Earl A. Grollman -- Meaning reconstruction and the experience of chronic loss / Robert A. Niemeyer -- Healing rituals: pathways to wholeness during prolonged illness and following death / Alice Parsons Zulli and O. Duane Weeks