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People with learning disabilities often have to cope with death, dying and bereavement without being fully informed of … the circumstances and sometimes without being told that death is imminent or indeed has occurred. This paper explores the … issues associated with death and dying from the perspective of people with learning disabilities, and considers proactive …
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Develops and estimates efficiency and productivity measures in the US trucking and warehousing industry in the 48 contiguous states during the years 1994‐2000. The model, estimated via data envelopment analysis, accounts for both desirable outputs and undesirable outputs produced by a given...
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responsibility of those in leading positions following death or injury to members of the workforce remains a live and problematic one …
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excursion across Europe. Visiting a range of sites, from those associated with the Christian Cult of Death to the notable … geography of death to stimulate emotional reactions and configure individual and societal interactions with death. Finding three …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a typology of dark tourists through an investigation of people's motivations to visit burial grounds. This research extends Stone's Dark Tourism Spectrum and Seven Dark Suppliers framework by identifying nine types of dark tourists....
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Purpose – This paper views the growing popularity of death tourism which directs the confrontation with grief and … of this paper are to describe the emerging phenomenon of death tourism and situate it as a form of dark tourism, to … with how the trend of death tourism is potentially spreading to other countries beyond Europe. Design …
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daily lives, so we contemplate death in different ways in tourism praxis. The papers presented here stretch the boundaries …
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associated with death and disaster has gained significant attention with media imaginations and academic scholarship. However … the dark tourism concept, as well as its contribution to the broader social scientific study of tourism and death … death education and tourism studies collide and, as such, can offer potentially fruitful research avenues within the broad …
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interviews with medical and nursing clinicians and managers and focus groups with nurses. Findings – Clinician attitudes to death …
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This paper briefly provides some thoughts on forward planning in end‐of‐life care, noting that there are good reasons for taking action with regard to our own demise. Provides an example of living will.
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