Death Dying category: 510 books
by Marilyn Warda
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Barranquitas, Venezuela is real. Nearly half of its population has inherited a malicious, mutated gene that causes a deadly neurological disease. Marina Valdesa, age 36, lies dying in a Casa Hogar Amor y Fe, or House of Love and Hope.
From Broken Glass
My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair.
On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed...
Gene Everlasting
A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Author Gene Logsdon—whom Wendell Berry once called “the most experienced and best observer of agriculture we have”—has a notion: That it is a little easier for gardeners and farmers to accept death than the rest of the populace. Why? Because every day, farmers and gardeners help plants and...
by Freya Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Contents
Introduction
Fred Astaire
Ludwig Van Beethoven
John Belushi
Marc Bolan
Karen Carpenter
Kurt Cobain
Judy Garland
Michael Jackson
Bruce Lee
Jim Morrison
Diana, Princess of Wales
Elvis Presley
Marilyn Monroe
Resting Places of the Rich &...
The Book of Immortality
The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
A “wonderful” (Harper’s), “engrossing” (Parade) exploration of the most universal of human obsessions: immortality—from an author who is “part Mary Roach, part Joe Strummer of The Clash” (The Wall Street Journal).
What have we not done to live forever? Adam Leith Gollner, the...
Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites
Seventeen Driving Tours with Directions and the Full Story, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood. Tourists at the center of the movie universe flock to Rudolph Valentino’s grave, the house where Marilyn Monroe died, the “O.J. murders” condo, the hotel where John Belushi...
Modern Loss
Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome.
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning," this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays...
The Party of Your Life
Get the Funeral You Want by Planning It Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
The Party of Your Life is a lively, irreverent guide to putting the F-U-N back in funeral. This upbeat book will appeal to adults of all ages who want a send-off that reflects their interests, achievements, and taste.
The Party of Your Life will help readers explore the full range of creative,...
Body Brokers
nside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.” —Epictetus
“Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow.” —Matthew 24:28
Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative exposé of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling...
by Katherine Fair Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
An extremely well-written, compassionate guide for the millions of people who come face to face with a death in their own families
When a brother or sister dies, surviving siblings often receive little support or recognition of their pain. But their grief is real, and there is a way to recover...
The Truth About Grief
The Myth of Its Five Stages and the New Science of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The five stages of grief are so deeply imbedded in our culture that no American can escape them. Every time we experience loss—a personal or national one—we hear them recited: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The stages are invoked to explain everything from how we will recover...
by Leon Wieseltier
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Children have obligations to their parents: the Talmud says "one must honor him in life and one must honor him in death." Beside his father’s grave, a diligent but doubting son begins the mourner’s kaddish and realizes he needs to know more about the prayer issuing from his lips. So...
by Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Practical supportive advice for bereaved parents and the professionals who work with them, based on the experiences of psychiatric and religious counselors.
FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
“Certainly, in the early days after our son died, no one could have patted us on the our heads and convinced...
Unfinished Conversation
Healing from Suicide and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Unfinished Conversations is a story of profound grief and the journey to healing that followed. Based on a journal Robert Lesoine kept during the two years following the suicide of his best friend, Unfinished Conversations will help readers through the process of reflecting on and affirming the raw...