Handbook of death and dying clifton d bryant on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers dying is a social as well as physiological phenomenon each society characterizes and. Work on daily experience was saturated with dying death and grief religious belief and practice had given priority to helping the dying person leave this world in a state of grace and to providing a proper funeral with meaningful and comforting rituals. The term death education refers to a variety of educational activities and experiences related to death and embraces such core topics as meanings and attitudes toward death processes of dying and bereavement and care for people affected by death death education also called education about death dying and bereavement is based on the belief that death denying death defying and death