Death Dying category: 510 books

Rita Joe is a Native girl who leaves the reservation for the city, only to die on skid row as a victim of white men’s violence and paternalistic attitudes towards First Nations peoples. As perhaps the best-known contemporary Canadian play and a poetic drama of enormous theatrical power, The Ecstasy...

"For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this."-Athol Fugard "A dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . . It will save us from hopelessness. See it."-Sunday Independent The...

Este libro reúne cuatro entrevistas poco conocidas en las que Jankélévitch aborda el misterio del instante mortal. En la primera, el filósofo reflexiona sobre la experiencia de la muerte de alguien cercano, de la del otro en general y sobre la incertidumbre metafísica que cada uno siente frente...

The World of Obituaries looks at obituaries as a rich source of information on cultural representations of gender.

Each suicide is as unique as the individuals involved, especially if one examines the nature of the act and to what extent these acts can be viewed as a theatrical performance. Focusing on the dramatic aspects of suicide may seem tangential to the physical and mental pain experienced by those who...

Illinois is home to cemeteries and burial grounds dating back to the Native American era. Whether sprawling over thousands of acres or dotting remote woodlands, these treasure troves of local and state history reflect two centuries of social, economic, and technological change. This easy-to-use guidebook...

A team of two practitioners in psychosocial palliative care and an academic have drawn together the work of twenty-eight highly experienced practitioners. Good Practices in Palliative Care : a psychosocial perspective provides detailed descriptions of innovatory practices and how they were developed,...

Janice N. Harrington's debut, Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (2007), garnered the prestigious Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (2007),was published as winner of BOA's annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. The Hands of Strangers draws on Harrington's...

It’s likely that you think of the funeral industry as a sombre one, populated by serious, grey-faced individuals whose days are filled with nothing but sadness and grief… but you couldn’t be further from the truth, as Harry Pope reveals in this hilarious memoir of his time as a funeral director.Over...

When her husband’s ill health forces them to move into an assisted living facility, Anne M. Wyatt-Brown suddenly finds herself surrounded by elderly residents. In this lively and provocative collection, other distinguished gerontologists reflect on Anne’s moving account of her transition to becoming...

**Life In The Infinite: AVANTA **is the year end edition for Ethan Lesley's first collection export for the year 2017. Considered the *gold/dawn *remaster of Infinite with 21 new poems including the reflective You have no future as a writer; the new-era introductories, terse Sannyasi Una and Infinite...

Exploring both principles and best practice of the spiritual care of sick children and young people, this remarkable and inspiring book equips the reader to think critically and creatively about how to provide care in hospitals, hospices and other care contexts for ill and disabled children. Written...

*Andre Gregory co-author with Wallace Shawn of "My Dinner With Andre" directed by Louis Malle *This year long exploration of Chekhov subject of 1994 film "Vanya on 42nd St" directed by Louis Malle

In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease. Astra's friends try to reconcile the sick girl's suffering with their own fierce longings and impetuous attachments. Car writes unsparing...