Death Dying category: 510 books
Things I've Learned from Dying
A Book About Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."
In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But...
Mortality's Muse
The Fine Art of Dying
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The inevitability of death—that of others and our own—is surely among our greatest anxieties. Mortality’s Muse: The Fine Art of Dying explores how art, mainly literary art, addresses that troubling reality. While religion and philosophy offer important consolations for life’s end, art responds...
Death, Ritual and Belief
The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which...
Living, Dying, Living Forever
Spiritual Reflections on the Journey of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Living in a culture that is fascinated with the topic of death and dying, there are many who desire to explore the issues from a Christian perspective. Living, Dying, Living Forever is designed as a workbook to help you explore the issues of living and dying as they relate to your relationship with...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Life is characterised by movement, change and development, including transitions, losses and grief. People experiencing loss must learn to accommodate it and, sometimes, relearn new roles. Whether the offender is accommodating general loss (such as transition), the loss of others or facing their own...
The Whole Death Catalog
A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
In the tradition of Mary Roach’s bestselling Stiff and Jessica Mitford’s classic exposé The American Way of Death comes this meticulously researched, refreshingly irreverent, and lavishly illustrated look at death from acclaimed author Harold Schechter. With his trademark fearlessness and bracing...
What Obituaries Don’T Tell You
Conversations About Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The terminal diagnosis is given, the knock on the door comes, and someone you love is dying or has just died. Death happens every day, yet as one hospital chaplain said, Most of the time we just live life as if it isnt an issue until its in our face.
Its not as if death is a secret. Its on...
by Robert Kastenbaum, Christopher M. Moreman
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Providing an overview of the myriad ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as an individual and as a member of society, this book will help readers understand our relationship with death. Kastenbaum and Moreman show how various ways that individual and societal attitudes influence both...
Nana is Dying
Facing the difficulties of life series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
This book is designed to help you tell your children about dying and death. Have you been in such a situation where you didn’t know what to say to your children about Nana’s death? Perhaps you wondered what you should tell them.
If you had a bad experience in the way you were treated by...
Bridging The Gap
Life Lessons from the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Live vicariously through Kimberly C. Paul as she shares personal stories and the life lessons she has learned while working with hospice patients over the last 18 years. Each chapter will inspire you to design your own life and death around what matters most. The author, Kimberly C. Paul, will urge...
The Good Death
The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
The Good Death is the first full-scale examination of one of today's most complex issues: the profound change in the way Americans think about and confront death. Drawing on more than six years of firsthand research and reporting, noted journalist Marilyn Webb builds her account around intimate portraits...
The Last Gifts: Creative Ways to Be with the Dying
Creative Ways to Be with the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
We can all learn to open our hearts to hear what a dying person really needs at the end of his life if we are just able to listen. --Jillian Brasch, OTR, The Last GiftsThe Last Gifts tells the stories of 17 dying patients, whom Jillian Brasch cared for as an occupational therapist. Brasch shows...
The Dreamer's Book of the Dead
A Soul Traveler's Guide to Death, Dying, and the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
A guidebook for communicating with the departed and gaining first-hand knowledge of life beyond death
• Reveals that the easiest way to communicate with the departed is through dreams
• Offers methods for helpful and timely communication with deceased loved ones
• Provides...
Passings
Death, Dying, and Unexplained Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
From dream research and global belief systems to such unexplained phenomena as bright lights, prescient dreams, near-death and out-of-body experiences, Passings delves into every aspect of the end of life. Taking a scientific and anthropological approach, Carole A. Travis-Henikoff looks at how other...