Dying, a lost art / Lydia S. Dugdale
Finitude / Jeffrey P. Bishop
Pluralism and the "good" death / Stephen R. Latham
Hospice and palliative medicine's attempt at an art of dying / Farr A. Curlin
Ritual and practice / M. Therese Lysaught
Spiritual preparation / Michelle Harrington and Daniel P. Sulmasy
The role of community / Autumn Alcot Ridenour and Lisa Sowle Cahill
The elderly and dementia / Daniel Callahan
AIDS, the modern plague / Peter A. Selwyn
Conclusion : toward a new ethical framework for the art of dying well / Lydia S. Dugdale.