Overview - Death & Dying: An Undergraduate Research Guide - Research Guides at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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About This Guide

This Research Guide includes sources dealing with the definitions of death, attitudes towards death, grief and mourning, funerals, and life after death studies.

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Credo Reference
A collection of 100 reference tools that may be searched collectively or individually. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, statistical sources, biographical tools, thesauri, books of quotations, image collections, and more.
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Collection of articles on health, religious, and cultural issues related to death and dying. Searchable, or browsable by topic such as abortion, advance directives, Charon and the River Styx, Days of the Dead, end-of-life issues, Jack Kevorkian, suicide.
MedlinePlus: End of Life Issues
National Library of Medicine's site provides links to journal articles, the latest news, and a glossary concerning dying and end of life service.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC) provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles related to controversial social issues.