Death category: 2756 books
Raising the Dead
Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2000
Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the...
What Dying People Want
Practical Wisdom For The End Of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
Facing death results in more fear and anxiety than any other human experience. Though much has been done to address the physical pain suffered by those with a terminal illness, Western medicine has been slow to understand and alleviate the psychological and spiritual distress that comes with the knowledge...
Death for Beginners
Your No-Nonsense, Money-Saving Guide to Planning for the Inevitable
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
With efficiency and a touch of humor, this valuable guidebook offers information on the difficult subject of planning for one's own death or organizing funerals for loved ones. Topics ranging from cremation, burial, caskets, services, and organ donation are explored, and each section offers data,...
Soul Comfort
Uplifting Insights Into the Nature of Grief, Death, Consciousness and Love for Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Grief is a normal, instinctive response to loss or impending loss. Grief changes whoever it touches without discrimination. Embracing the change is key for healing and positive transformation. Introspection or reflection can be a useful, perhaps therapeutic, process when you are grieving. Indeed, silence,...
by Francis Douce
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
The manner in which the poets and artists of antiquity have symbolized or personified Death, has excited considerable discussion; and the various opinions of Lessing, Herder, Klotz, and other controversialists have only tended to demonstrate that the ancients adopted many different modes to accomplish...
Caring for the Dying
The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth doulas...
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...
by Gary Laderman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
Though it has often been passionately criticized--as fraudulent, exploitative, even pagan--the American funeral home has become nearly as inevitable as death itself, an institution firmly embedded in our culture. But how did the funeral home come to hold such a position? What is its history? And is...
Preparation for Death
Prayers and Consolations for the Final Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 1998
From the former editor of Liguorian magazine comes this thoughtful compilation of selections from Saint Alphonsus Liguori. He is a favorite among spiritual seekers for years, he guides readers on a journey of knowledge focusing not on the end of life, but on the beginning of the spiritual afterlife....
by Cynthia MacGregor
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2018
The death of a pet truly is like the death of a beloved family member. It's tough to deal with...but here's help, in the form of a book written by an author who herself has endured the death of many pets over the years, is sympathetic, warm, and understanding, and who has some helpful suggestions....
by Sandy Fox
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
Creating a New NormalAfter the Death of a Child will help the newly bereaved as well as the seasoned griever fi nd their way through the darkness and into the light again to a life full of happiness and new meaning.
Learn a variety of coping and informational skills to help any bereaved parent...
by Robert Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Over Your Dead Body is a nonfiction book with a very personal narrative that reads like a novel.It takes in real life experiences, the science of death and caring for the dead, the after-death existence of pharoahs, kings and dictators, a recipe for medieval funeral cake, how 20,000 people in post-communist...
by Ben Wakeling
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Every day in the UK, 17 babies are stillborn or die shortly after birth. Behind each one is a family rocked to the foundations by the death of their baby. Many parents who have suffered such a terrible tragedy do go on to have more children - but this brings with it a mixture of emotions: relief,...
The Unspeakable Loss
How Do You Live After a Child Dies?
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A guide to hope and healing after the death of a child, from a grief counselor and psychotherapist who has been there.
Nisha Zenoff lost her son in a tragic accident when he was just seventeen years old. Now, with decades of experience as a grief counselor and psychotherapist, she offers support...