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Background: Health professionals constantly face patients' death in their work places, along with a series of changes that develop during the mourn process of the human being in both, patient´s relatives and themselves. They intervene in some steps of the process since, consciously or unconsciously they interact with the hospitalized dying patient and relatives, either in a public or private institution. Health professionals receive some training in the subject, but it is not common so that they seek to get it. The aim of the study was to identify the attitudes of the thanatology diplomat students when facing death in their professional and personal lives, in order to promote their continuum improvement in thanatology attention.
Methods: the study was quantitative, observational, descriptive, cross-sectional and prospective; a questionnaire was applied to 33 students of the thanatology diplomat from National Autonomous University of Mexico with hospital practice. The questionnaire had 7 items with a Likert scale of frequent, infrequent, never, that included the variables of study, such as death process in different life steps, death due to suicide, sudden death, due to HIV/AIDS, etc. An Excel data base was created and descriptive statistics was used in the analysis.
Results: When a child was dying, 27 students were empathetic in communicating affection and companionship during the process, while the rest had difficulty doing so. For the death of the adolescents, 27 students behaved empathetic and affective, while 2 showed difficulty in accepting the death of the patient and the rest avoided interaction with the patient and relatives. In the case of adult death, 28 students behaved empathetic and affectionate; while for the older ones, 24 students behaved empathetic and affective, 3 believed it as a natural process that comes to an end.
Conclusion: Attitudes of thanatology diplomat students facing death, along their professional and personal lives improve once they received information for dealing with patients and relatives.

Dedication: Steward E. Greydanus (1942-1947) / Elaine Greydanus Bush -- Preface: Why do children die? / Donald E Greydanus, Dustin C Rowland and Joav Merrick -- Death and dying : perspectives of religious thought / Dustin C Rowland, Zain Soofi and David Gerew -- Death before birth : issues of pregnancy termination / Hatim Omar and Donald E Greydanus -- Prevention of newborn death : newborn screening / Shibani Kanungo, Sharmeen Samuel, Jessica Ramsay, Mekala Neelakantan and Jasmine Saeedian -- Perspectives on newborn palliative care / Donald E Greydanus and Joav Merrick -- Unintentional death in childhood / Dustin C Rowland and Maya Giaquinta -- Pediatric palliative care in congenital heart disease : a case based approach in infants and children / Natalie Kontos and Premchand Anne -- Sudden cardiac death in the pediatric and adolescent population / John D Rowlett, Liana J Mosely, Wesley Arrison and Carson S Villa - -- Pediatric mortality during surgical procedures : epidemiologic and psychosocial considerations / Jeffrey Feng and Dustin C Rowland -- Chronic disease and the dying adolescent / Donald E Greydanus, Cheryl A Dickson and Dustin C Rowland -- Pediatric suicide : establishing a basis for probing its mysteries and complexities / Donald E Greydanus -- Self-cutting and suicide in adolescents / Donald E Greydanus and Hatim A Omar -- Suicidality and the LGBT youth : tragic underpinnings of societal insouciance, impuissant aesculapian response and implacable sacerdotal dogma / Donald E Greydanus -- Fatal child abuse / Vincent J Palusci -- Tragedy of sibling abuse : convergence of fiction, research, and the reality of human nature / Donald E Greydanus, Elizabeth K Hawver and Joav Merrick -- Child sexual abuse perspectives / Donald E Greydanus and Joav Merrick -- Perspectives on incest : a perplexing paradox characterized by destructive betrayal of trust / Donald E Greydanus and Joav Merrick -- The killing fields on the roads : can we protect the teen driver? / Donald E Greydanus -- Introduction to death, post-traumatic stress disorder, and motor vehicle crashes in children and adolescents : a historically delayed realization / Donald E Greydanus and Joav Merrick -- Death, injury and motor vehicle crashes in children and adolescents : what does the future hold? / Donald E Greydanus and Joav Merrick -- Concepts of aggression : perspectives in the 21st century / Donald E Greydanus, Joseph R Hawver and Dustin C Rowland -- Psychosocial adaptation to chronic illness and disability / Roger W Apple.

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