Report on care of terminally ill patients by students of medicine, sociology, psychology and theology growing out of a University of Chicago interdisciplinary seminar.

On the fear of death -- Attitudes toward death and dying -- First stage: denial and isolation -- Second stage: anger -- Third stage: bargaining -- Fourth stage: depression -- Fifth stage: acceptance -- Hope -- The patient's family -- Some interviews with terminally ill patients -- Reactions to the seminar on death and dying -- Therapy with the terminally ill.