Robert DeBellis, Eric Marcus, Austin H. Kutscher, Carole Smith Torres, Virginia Barrett, Mary-Ellen Siegel

• Contents Patients’ Wants and Needs: The Physicians’ ResponsesSuffering and Autonomy The Dying Patient: Physician’s Suffering Suffering, Thanatology, and Whole-Person Medicine The Pain of the Physician Repetitive Existential Plight: The Emotional Impact of Recurrent Serious Illness Suffering in Chronic Mental Illness Reflections on Suffering Prompted by ALS Suffering and End Stage Renal Disease Cancer Patients and Radiotherapy: Close Encounters of a Third Kind AIDS Patient Suffering Suffering Home Care for the Dying Child With Cancer: Feasibility and Desirability Euthanasia and Moral Stress On the Value of Suffering in the Shadow of Death Suffering and Pain Death and Growth: The Problem of Pain The Child and Suffering: The Role of the School Spiritual Support for the Suffering: Clergy Attitudes Toward Bereavement A Pastoral View of Widowhood Push Back the Curtain of Darkness Aspects of Anxiety: Financial Concerns When Death Is Imminent Suffering and the Quest for Meaning “And Day Brought Back My Night”

Robert DeBellis, Eric Marcus, Austin H. Kutscher, Carole Smith Torres, Virginia Barrett, Mary-Ellen Siegel

• Contents Patients’ Wants and Needs: The Physicians’ ResponsesSuffering and Autonomy The Dying Patient: Physician’s Suffering Suffering, Thanatology, and Whole-Person Medicine The Pain of the Physician Repetitive Existential Plight: The Emotional Impact of Recurrent Serious Illness Suffering in Chronic Mental Illness Reflections on Suffering Prompted by ALS Suffering and End Stage Renal Disease Cancer Patients and Radiotherapy: Close Encounters of a Third Kind AIDS Patient Suffering Suffering Home Care for the Dying Child With Cancer: Feasibility and Desirability Euthanasia and Moral Stress On the Value of Suffering in the Shadow of Death Suffering and Pain Death and Growth: The Problem of Pain The Child and Suffering: The Role of the School Spiritual Support for the Suffering: Clergy Attitudes Toward Bereavement A Pastoral View of Widowhood Push Back the Curtain of Darkness Aspects of Anxiety: Financial Concerns When Death Is Imminent Suffering and the Quest for Meaning “And Day Brought Back My Night”

Robert DeBellis, Eric Marcus, Austin H. Kutscher, Carole Smith Torres, Virginia Barrett, Mary-Ellen Siegel

• Contents Patients’ Wants and Needs: The Physicians’ ResponsesSuffering and Autonomy The Dying Patient: Physician’s Suffering Suffering, Thanatology, and Whole-Person Medicine The Pain of the Physician Repetitive Existential Plight: The Emotional Impact of Recurrent Serious Illness Suffering in Chronic Mental Illness Reflections on Suffering Prompted by ALS Suffering and End Stage Renal Disease Cancer Patients and Radiotherapy: Close Encounters of a Third Kind AIDS Patient Suffering Suffering Home Care for the Dying Child With Cancer: Feasibility and Desirability Euthanasia and Moral Stress On the Value of Suffering in the Shadow of Death Suffering and Pain Death and Growth: The Problem of Pain The Child and Suffering: The Role of the School Spiritual Support for the Suffering: Clergy Attitudes Toward Bereavement A Pastoral View of Widowhood Push Back the Curtain of Darkness Aspects of Anxiety: Financial Concerns When Death Is Imminent Suffering and the Quest for Meaning “And Day Brought Back My Night”