Syllabus
1. The final stage of human life in the past and today.
2. The importance of quality of life in end stage of disease.
3. Issues of euthanasia.
4. Social contexts of dying and death.
Annotation
This course folows the subject Quality of Life and Health in the Old Age I and focuses on issues of social gerontology of final stages of human life. Presented in particular are issues of dying and death in the context of the family as well as wider society.