Deathcare (also death care, death-care or after-deathcare) is the planning, provision, and improvement of post-death services, products, policy, and governance. Here, deathcare functions to describe the industry of deathcare workers, the policy and politics surrounding deathcare provision, and as an interdisciplinary field of academic study.[1]
Deathcare, from the point of clinical death, has a diverse timeline. The first point of care often involves immediate healthcare professionals and responders closest to the person who has died, including doctors, nurses, palliative and end-of-life care workers.[2] From here, the care of deceased individuals has a culturally, religious, and personal course. This can involve a range of people from religious figures, morticians, to grave keepers – all of these roles formulating to what can be known as deathcare workers.[3]
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- ^ Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; University of Colorado Boulder MENV (2021-10-24). "Essential Death care workers briefing book" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-10-24. Retrieved 2021-10-24.