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REL 314 | Death and Dying

Guide to information resources on death, dying and the psychology of loss.

Statistics

Image: Dead Man's Hand. By Tage Olsin. CC-BY-SA-2.0. Wikimedia Commons.

Leading Causes of Death
WISQARS is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of death data--by region, race, sex, age. CDC.
Leading Causes of Death
National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) 2007 data (latest). CDC.
Mortality Data
CDC.
Life Expectancy/Mortality
Mortality by cause, injury mortality, infant morality, life expectancy. CDC.

Encyclopedias

Print subject encyclopedias, available in Bishop Library, behind the DVD's.

Death and the Afterlife : A Cultural Encyclopedia
Call Number: GT 3150 .T25 2000
ISBN: 0874369398
Encyclopedia of Death & the Human Experience
Call Number: REF HQ1073 .E544 2009
ISBN: 9781412951784
Handbook of Death and Dying
Call Number: HQ 1073 .H36 2003
ISBN: 9780761925149
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Call Number: REF HQ 1073 .M33 2003
ISBN: 002865689X

Websites

Growth House
Provides information about life-threatening illness and end of life care.
Faces of Life and Death
In this video, photographer Walter Schel and journalist Beate Lakotta describe what they learned about death and dying in a project in which they photographed hospice patients in the final days of their lives and again after death.
New York Times Death and Dying Series
Collection of articles on death and dying from the NYTimes.