"A classic, fascinating readers for nearly 30 years. New to the Third Edition are chapters on how we construct death, death in adolescence and adulthood including discussion on suicide, physician-assisted death, and Regret Theory and Denial, new approaches to the role of death anxiety, Terror Management Theory, and Edge Theory, and much more."--Jacket.

The Psychologist's Death: A Work in Progress -- How Do We Construct Death? A Developmental Approach -- Reconstructing Death in Adolescence and Adulthood -- Death in the Midst of Life -- A Will to Live and an Instinct to Die? -- Dying: Toward a Psychological Perspective -- Deathbed Scenes.