Death category: 2756 books
Tracks of a Fellow Struggler
Living and Growing Through Grief
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
With over a million copies sold, one’s pastor’s personal experience with devastating grief—and learning to heal through faith—has touched countless hearts.
John Claypool had been a pastor for almost two decades, ministering to others who suffered through the loss of loved ones, when...
Living and Dying with Confidence
A Day-by-Day Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A daily companion for embracing life, preparing for death, and awakening to reality.
Anyen Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist master and teacher, and his longtime student and translator Allison Choying Zangmo present ancient and rich teachings on death in a contemporary, accessible manner. Learn how...
A Long Day at the End of the World
A Story of Desecration and Revelation in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
A chilling memoir of the Tri-State Crematory incident
In February 2002, hundreds of abandoned and decayed bodies were discovered at the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, making it the largest mass desecration in modern American history. The perpetrator—a well-respected family man and...
The Land Is Dying
Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life....
Dying Well
Dying Faithfully
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
We cannot choreograph our own death, but we can die well.
This is a book for those who are facing death. It is also for their relatives, friends and carers.
John Wyatt looks at recent trends in dying. He examines the 'art of dying', a Christian tradition from the past. We see opportunities...
In Search of the Immortals
Mummies, Death and the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Everyone knows that the ancient Egyptians were great mummifiers, and their sarcophagi and bandage-wrapped corpses are familiar images to us all. Yet across the vast sweep of history, we find many other great cultures in which the bodies of the dead were preserved as a matter of course.
In coastal...
What in Hell is Happening?
Christian Faith Series, #4
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Why do people like scary books? It gives them the opportunity to face their fears.
When it comes to death what do you fear? Do you fear you will not make it to heaven? Do you panic at the thought that there may be something other than nothingness after death? Does hell really exists and worst...
Tap Once For Yes
Messages from Beyond Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
You will read in these pages a hugely inspiring and joyful account of survival. This narrative presents extremely strong evidence that the human spirit lives beyond physical death and is able to communicate with and genuinely comfort those who grieve in this life. It is evidence that demands to be taken...
Unattended Sorrow
Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Original editions published in 2005 and 2006 sold over twenty thousand copies. This was also his last non-fiction book. He died in 2016. This will be his first posthumous publication which features new introductory material by his wife Ondrea Levine and Mirabai Starr, and so an appreciation of Stephen...
The Future of Immortality
Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortality
As long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries and utopians who are pressing at the...
The Gifts of Grief
Finding Light in the Darkness of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
At some point in our lives, we all experience grief:
The death of a loved one, a financial catastrophe, a debilitating illness, or the ending of a marriage. In the dark moments that follow these losses, life can seem hopeless and unbearable.
Author Therèse Tappouni knows this journey...
Consoling Ghosts
Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In conversation with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Jean M. Langford repeatedly met with spirits: the wandering souls of the seriously ill, dangerous ghosts of those who died by violence, restless ancestors displaced from their homes. For these emigrants, the dead not only appear in memories, safely...
by Kenneth MacLean
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
When Frank Martin lost his wife Leah to a sudden illness, he was angry at the doctors and at life. His 8 year old daughter, Amanda, worried that her father would sink into another depression. Then one night, two weeks after her mother's death, Amanda had a vivid dream.
A beautiful angel...
The Angel Safe in Your Heart
Messages of Love, Hope and Healing for the Bereaved
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
This guide offers messages of love, hope and healing for the bereaved.
The Angel Safe in Your Heart seeks to make the loss and shock of bereavement more bearable. This book is written with love for all adults and older children who are grieving after the death of a loved one. It is written...