Grief or loss can cause change -- force evolution, if you will, into the human ability for personal growth and self-actualization. Certainly grief is a human emotion; as much a part of us (Kubler-Ross, 2009). Psychologically, grief is a response to loss -- conventionally emotional, but also having physical, cognitive, social, philosophical, and even behavioral dimensions. There are numerous theories about grief, some popularized, some scholarly, but all try to explain the "process" humans engender when dealing with loss. Even one of the more popularized, yet useful, theories, Kubler-Ross, though, states that the grief stages, "have evolved since their introduction, and they have been very misunderstood over the past three decades. They were never meant to tuck messy emotions into neat packages. They are responses to loss that many people have, but there is not a typical response to loss. There is no typical loss. Our grief...

Humans and death -- historiography
2. Ethical models: deontology, utilitarianism, beneficence, etc. - bioethics

3. Biological aspects of death and dying -- technology? Wisdom?

4. Psychological and psychosocial aspects of death and dying

5. Death and the issue of senescence

6. What is sustainable happiness?

7. How is the concept of death related to sustainable happiness?

8. Tools and techniques to deal with death -- altruism, inspiration, sustainability

9. The quest for meaning in death -- why is death feared?

Conclusions -- How does death