Death and Dying Across the Lifespan: Brain Death, Grief, Bereavement and Coping

A lecture on how death is defined, from functional death to brain death, and on death education and why a sudden, unprepared-for death is harder to face. It works through Kubler-Ross's stage theory of dying, how survivors react to loss, and the funeral patterns of different cultures, from preparation of the body and a religious ritual to the eulogy that marks the endpoint of a life.