Chapter 10 "We Must Go to the Park" Summary and Analysis

Chapter 10 begins the third of three major divisions within the text—Part III - Nearing Death Awareness: What I Need for a Peaceful Death. The section considers several common areas of emotional conflict, which confront dying people. If these conflicts are not resolved, a person facing death often struggles against it and ultimately dies without peace. Furthermore, survivors are more likely to suffer undue emotional distress and hardship. It is therefore important for all involved to have an understanding of what a person needs in order to die peacefully. Many of the chapters is Part III suffer somewhat from too much emphasis on the presentation of multiple case studies to the exclusion of well-developed analysis of the topics presented; this is a minor problem but is...