By the end of this chapter, you will:

• Review recent research on the psychological aspects of end-of-life care, dying and death
• Consider the concepts of a 'good death' and the 'quality of death and dying' and examine how these constructs can be quantified
• Review the growing literature on palliative and end-of-life care
• Review recent trends towards legalisation of physician-assisted care and physician-assisted suicide and the use of suffering as a criterion
• Discuss brain death and organ donation