Death category: 2756 books
Great Answers to Difficult Questions about Death
What Children Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Death is never an easy subject for discussion and adults often struggle to find the right words when talking about it with children. This book explores children's thoughts and feelings on the subject of death and provides parents and other caring adults with guidance on how to respond to difficult...
Living Beyond
Making Sense of Near Death Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
"What happens when we die? This is one of humankind’s most important questions. Living Beyond brings a fresh and exciting perspective to this enduring question. Ivan Rudolph shares dramatic evidence supporting near-death experiences. This book is expertly written, remarkably easy to read, and...
by Catherine Strong, Barbara Lebrun
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012, have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music, fame and death. If the phrase ’sex, drugs...
by Janice Hume
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2000
What obituaries tell us about our culture, past and present "Within the short period of a year she was a bride, a beloved wife and companion, a mother, a corpse," reported The National Intelligencer on the death of Elizabeth Buchanan in 1838. Such obituaries fascinate us. Few of us realize that,...
Blood Beneath My Feet
The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Have you ever been locked in a cooler with piles of decomposing humans for so long that you had to shave all the hair off your body in order to get rid of the smell? Joseph Scott Morgan did. Have you ever lit a Marlboro from the ignited gas of a bloated dead man's belly? Joseph Scott Morgan has. Have...
A Better Place
Death and Burial in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
A Better Place describes the practices around death and burial in 19th-century Ontario. Funeral rituals, strong religious beliefs, and a firm conviction that death was a beginning not an end helped the bereaved through their times of loss in a century where death was always close at hand.
The...
Holding Back The Tears
Facing up to the fact your child has died.
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
Facing up to the fact your child has died......... Bereavement loss of a child through accident or cot death suicide any other illness's it is a fact of life no one expects their own child to die before they do, don't face it alone The devastion it can cause us is overwhelming and outwith our own...
Confessions of a Funeral Director
How the Business of Death Saved My Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
**The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a "must read"—reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in...
At the End of Life
True Stories About How We Die
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?The modern healthcare system has become proficient at staving off death with aggressive interventions. And yet, eventually everyone dies—and although most Americans say they would prefer to die peacefully at home, more than half of all deaths take...
Sacred Grief
Exploring A New Dimension to Grief
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Are you ready to discover what lies beyond the ordinary experience of grief?
Sacred Grief offers an intriguing exploration of the far-reaching ripple effect of our present-day opinions about surviving grief's emotional roller-coaster and the unnecessary suffering our judgments unconsciously...
The Journey After Life
What Happens When We Die
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
We all want to know what happens when we die. According to Cyndi Dale, we don't have to wait to find out. With The Journey After Life, this internationally renowned author presents a compelling investigation of the soul's journey—an evolutionary cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that we travel...
The Sun Mystery and the Mystery of Death and Resurrection
Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity, 12 lectures, various cities, March 21-June 11, 1922 (CW 211)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
These lectures were given in 1922, midway between World War I and Steiners death in 1925. They will be of particular interest to anyone wanting to comprehend Rudolf Steiners mature understanding of his mission: enchristing the world. The first two lectures constitute a call to arms or return to basics....
No Death, No Fear
Comforting Wisdom for Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
"[Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth." --His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort.
With...
Final Moments
Nurses' Stories about Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
What was it like the first time a nurse witnessed death? How do nurses cope with death when it becomes almost routine? What lessons can we learn from their experiences?
Twenty-five nurses—from hospitals, private practices, and in home health care—tell about their experiences with death....