Death category: 2756 books
American Afterlife
Encounters in the Customs of Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Someone dies. What happens next?
One family inters their matriarch’s ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, “You can make mummies with it!” while a leading contemporary burial...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Here is an excellent new book packed with state-of-the-art information on thanatology. It presents valuable insights on the history, current issues, and future directions for the modern death movement. This comprehensive volume is unique in that it offers multiple perspectives on the issues and problems...
What Are You Crying About?
Defeating Grief for Christians (and Other Believers)
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The title of this book is not meant to question sadness in the course of natural grief but to prompt you to question what it is exactly that you are grieving about. This book gives full attention to the question on the cover and presents you with answers that will comfort you in a time when you will...
What death means now
Thinking critically about dying and grieving
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live. Dying and grieving continually evolve: new preparations for dying, new kinds of funerals, new ways of handling grief and new ways to memorialise are developing all the time. Bringing 25 years of research and teaching...
by Gail Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Take a Deep Breath! You WILL Get Through This!There is Comfort, Support, and Hope for Your Shattered Heart.The death of your loved one has left you reeling, lost, and disoriented. Take my hand: I’ve walked this treacherous journey myself and within the pages of this book I will light your...
I Didn't Know What to Say
Being A Better Friend to Those Who Experience Loss
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Death is the opposite of life. And for those who have experienced loss, grieving can feel dark, lonely, scary, confusing and/or almost unbearable. For those grieving, life almost seems suspended, but the reality is, life goes on regardless of our loss. As fellow humans looking on, we WANT to communicate,...
by David H. Lund
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Does bodily death mean the complete destruction of a person? The first part of this scholarly book defends the view that the nature of man and the world he encounters implies survival of death as a conceptual possibility. The second part considers the empirical evidence for concluding that at least...
Death and the Migrant
Bodies, Borders and Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Death and the Migrant is a sociological account of transnational dying and care in British cities. It chronicles two decades of the ageing and dying of the UK's cohort of post-war migrants, as well as more recent arrivals.
Chapters of oral history and close ethnographic observation, enriched...
by Dr. Michael D. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
To most people, death is a heart-rending, mind-boggling, terrifying experience. However, according to the Bible, we should not be fearful or sorrowful at the departure of a loved one because physical death is not the end of life. While it is natural to mourn the departure of a loved one, there is a difference...
There Is Another Life!
Life After Physical Death - Life After Spiritual Death
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
"There Is Another Life!" is a compelling and revealing journey of a mothers encounter with signs and wonders beyond the scope of imagination. It answers the hard questions we ask, after the loss of a child and or love ones. It will give hope to the hopeless and strength to those without...
Dying with Dignity: A Legal Approach to Assisted Death
A Legal Approach to Assisted Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad.
• Provides comprehensive,...
The Violet Hour
Great Writers at the End
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter—an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality.
In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe...
Every Third Thought
On life, death and the endgame
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg
'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse
In 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum...
How to Plan a Funeral
Grief, Bereavement, Death, Loss
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
How to Plan a Funeral: A Simple and Easy Step-By-Step Guide to Making a Difficult Time Easier When Coping with Loss.
You know how awful it is when the inevitable happens, your world comes crashing down and you are unable to think straight?
There is so much to do and limited time?...