Legal Issues in Death and Dying / Alan Meisel -- Death at the Beginning: The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit / Renee D. Boss -- Dying Children and the Kindness of Strangers / John Lantos -- Medical Futility and Potentially Inappropriate Treatment / Douglas White, Thaddeus Pope -- Conscientious Objection / Mark R. Wicclair -- / Mark Aulisio -- The Ethics of Medically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration at the End of Life / Daniel Sulmasy -- Disorders of Consciousness and Neuro-Palliative Care / Joseph J. Fins, Maria Masters -- Ethical Issues in Prognosis and Prognostication / Alexander K. Smith, Paul Glare -- The Nature of Suffering / Eric J. Cassell -- On Our Difficulties Speaking To and About the Dying / David Barnard -- The Cost of Dying Among the Elderly in the United States / Susannah Rose, Janelle Highland -- The Effect of Social Media on End-of-Life Decision Making / Jessica Berg -- Ethnicity as a Factor / Kimberly S. Johnson, Ramona L. Rhodes -- Cultural Factors / Megan Crowley-Matoka -- Physician-Assisted Death in the Netherlands / Gerrit Kimsma -- The Case Against Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia / Ira Byock -- Goodbye, Thomas / Margaret P. Battin -- Depression and the Desire to Die Near the End of Life / Nathan Fairman, Scott A Irwin -- Hospice and Palliative Care / David Clark -- Marketing Palliative Care / Rolfe Sean Morrison, Bridget Tracy -- Reframing Care in End-of-Life Care: Helpful Themes from a Catholic-Christian Understanding of Death / Michael McCarthy, Mark G. Kuczewski -- Death, Dying and the Disabled / Anita Silvers, Leslie Francis -- The Smell of Chlorine / Stuart J. Youngner -- Introduction / Stuart J. Youngner, Robert M. Arnold