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1. All Must Die. No escape. Seeking therapy on the way to death. To be or not to be - is there a death instinct? 2. Out of Season. Fragile beginnings. What children know and what they can talk about. Answering children's questions. The first bereavements. Jonathan's story. Children who die. Parents whose children die. Slaughter of the innocents. The story of two mothers. 3. A Plague Called AIDS. Pandemic. What is AIDS and where does it come from? Health education, tests and counselling. Perry's story. AIDS in the family. 4. Sudden Death. Death by proxy. Meeting the shadow. Murder in mind. Forensic psychotherapy. Working with murderers. Capital punishment - the outcasts. Suicide. Suicide, psychotherapy and the saving of souls. Euthanasia. War. The manner of our dying. 5. Slow Death. Terminal illness. To tell or not to tell? Natural death. Where to die. Fear. 6. Partly Living. To eat or not to eat? The dying brain. The death of meaning. 7. In Fullness of Time. Being old. Dying of old age. Life review. Counselling, psychotherapy, analysis. 8. A Time to Mourn. Mourning on the way to death. Each bereavement is unique. Funeral options. 9. On the Edge. Dreams of death. View from the edge. 10. Who Dies? Ego. Self. Body, soul and spirit. Individuation. Can we still believe in an afterlife? Appendix. References. Index.