Aims and Scope: Now published ten times each year, this acclaimed journal provides refereed papers on significant research, scholarship, and practical approaches in the fast-growing areas of bereavement and loss, grief therapy, death attitudes, suicide, and death education. It provides an international interdisciplinary forum in which a variety of professionals share results of research and practice, with the aim of better understanding the human encounter with death and assisting those who work with the dying and their families.

This US-based peer reviewed journal publishes in English and has been in production since 1977. All articles are accessible on-line. Further details are available from the website.