Death Dying category: 510 books
Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror
The Melancholic Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technology, and film, detailing a worrying trend towards nostalgia and arguing that, although the sublime has the potential to be the most powerful uniting aesthetic...
Hallowed Ground
Stories of the Yale Pioneer Cemetery
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This book makes it easy with its compelling collection of stories about the people who are buried at the Yale Pioneer Cemetery, an antique burial ground “at a stopping point between Fort Langley and Fort Kamloops,” BC. Established in 1858, the Yale Cemetery offers final refuge to some 300 souls,...
No Good Deed
A Story of Medicine, Murder Accusations, and the Debate over How We Die
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Accomplished physician and researcher Dr. Lewis Cohen writes the untold story of two Massachusetts nurses, their struggles with end of life care, and how they were accused of murdering a patient. Captivating and powerful, No Good Deed explores what happens when decisions about end of life issues and the purpose of modern medicine move from the hospital to the courtroom to the church.
Freedom to Die
People, Politics, and the Right-to-Die Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2000
The strength of the right-to-die movement was underscored as early as 1991, when Derek Humphry published Final Exit, the movement's call to arms that inspired literally hundreds of thousands of Americans who wished to understand the concepts of assisted suicide and the right to die with dignity. Now...
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Movie tie-in edition of the film from Lions Gate starring Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart and Dianne Wiest. Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
1000 Testimonies: Jesus in the Service
Story of 1000 Testimonies, #10
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
A soldier gets through Life's greatest hell and one of life's most gruesome battles having God and Jesus on his side.
by Claudio Lomnitz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Esta obra es la primera historia social, cultural y política de la muerte en una nación que hizo de ella su símbolo tutelar. Mediante el examen de la historia y del símbolo de la muerte, este innovador estudio marca un hito en la comprensión del rico y singular empleo que hacen los mexicanos...
by Todd Andrew Rohrer
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The cost and destruction mankind's fatal addiction too the drugs called science,math. The inability of even the most disciplined countries to even acknowledge let alone face the technology addiction spanning several thousand years..Also historical as well as current explanations relative to ghost...
Scribbling On Foucault's Walls
The Girl Who Wasn't There
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Imagine of Michel Foucault, the great homosexual French Philosopher, had, in fact, have had a daughter... This is the story of the girl who wasn't there. Being born into not only the life of a homosexual man but also into the world of social theory and cultural critics makes this girl rather unusual. The text of the book mirrors the incongruity of the premise.
by Professor Raymond Tallis
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Time’s mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond Tallis rises to this challenge and explores the nature and meaning of time and how best to understand...
Why Men Die First
How to Lengthen Your Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
It is a universal fact that men die before women. But the causes of this have long remained unexplored. In this trailblazing book, Dr. Marianne Legato--an expert in gender specific health--examines the reasons behind men's fragility and explains what they need to do to live longer.
A bestselling...
Murders in the United States
Crimes, Killers and Victims of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
From the assassination of President William McKinley on September 6, 1901, to the mass killing at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, the 20th century saw many murderous events that are difficult to contemplate but have become a part of the national history. This reference book is divided into...
Mijn moeder wilde dood
een persoonlijk en praktisch verhaal over zelfbeschikking
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 21, 2016
De moeder van Annegreet van Bergen was vijfentachtig, weduwe en werd geplaagd door een opeenstapeling van kwalen. Ze wilde euthanasie, maar dat verzoek werd afgewezen. Haar dochter hielp haar met sterven en schreef na afloop het boek dat ze destijds graag zelf had willen hebben. In 'Mijn moeder wilde...
Legal Executions in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri
A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In the five state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri, 1027 men and women are known to have been legally hanged, gassed or electrocuted for capital crimes during the century after the Civil War. Drawing on thousands of hours of research, this comprehensive record covers each execution...