Death category: 2756 books
by John White
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
In A Practical Guide to Death and Dying, consciousness researcher John White provides a thorough, compassionate look at death and explores the biology, psychology, and metaphysics of one's own demise. In addition to recounting the personal stories of those who have developed a healthy attitude toward death, White also offers a program for personal action.
Devastating Losses
How Parents Cope With the Death of a Child to Suicide or Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
This book fills a critical gap in our scientific understanding of the grief response of parents who have lost a child to traumatic death and the psychotherapeutic strategies that best facilitate healing. It is based on the results of the largest study ever conducted of parents surviving a child's...
Talking About Death and Bereavement in School
How to Help Children Aged 4 to 11 to Feel Supported and Understood
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Children experiencing bereavement are often confused, unprepared, and in need of help and support from those around them. It is important that school teachers and staff know how to respond to bereavement and how they can best help the child.
This short, easy to read book offers simple but important...
Death
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
In this illuminating collection of oral-history style interviews, Casey Jarman talks to a funeral industry watchdog about the (often shady) history of the death trade; he hears how songwriter David Bazan lost his faith while trying to hold on to his family; he learns about cartoonist Art Spiegelman...
by Peggy Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2006
" a unique opportunity to learn about caregiving from a true veteran and practitioner of the art."-Jon D. Kaiser, M.D., Physician and Author of Healing HIV
Coping with illness and dying is a challenge. How do we allocate resources? What are the rights and responsibilities of the sick...
Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death and Grief
Diversity in Universality
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
This volume is directed towards professionals who work in the fields concerning death and dying. These professionals must perceive the needs of people with cultural patterns which are different from the "standard and dominant" patterns in the United States and Canada. Accordingly, the book...
Moving Past
The Death of a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This wonderful book shows you how to develop the internal strength you need to move forward with your life.
Brian Tracy, author of Live a Wonderful Life
How do I move past the death of my loved one?
Whether the loss of a loved one is sudden or the result of a long illness, it...
Life or Death
A Matter of Choice?
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
A understandable overview of the laws regarding euthanasia, end-of-life treatment, and medication of those who may be unable to decide for themselves if the treatment is necessary.
Our bodies are ours to control, free from state interference — or so it appears. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms...
by Annamaria Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Almost every religious mythology contains the primordial motif of death and rebirth and portrays the posthumous journey of the deceased following death. Myths of the afterlife exist in all cultures, including that of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, Babylonians, Romans and Celts and continue to manifest...
Virtual Afterlives
Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This...
The Aesthetic Experience of Dying
The Dance to Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Structured around a personal account of the illness and death of the author’s partner, Jane, this book explores how something hard to bear became a threshold to a world of insight and discovery.
Drawing on German Idealism and Jane’s own research in the area, The Aesthetic Experience of...
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Our Changing Journey to the End: Reshaping Death, Dying, and Grief in America [2 volumes]
Reshaping Death, Dying, and Grief in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This novel, cross-disciplinary collection explains how dying, death, and grieving have changed in America, for better or worse, since the turn of the millennium.
• Shows how high health care costs; concern for the environment; and a diverse, aging population necessitate rethinking the care...
The Empty Bed
Coming to Terms with Death
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
We are told that death is part of life. We are told that we should respect the journey and hope that there is a reward for a life well lived. We are told that there is a Heaven which follows death, and that the deceased will find eternal peace. We are told all sorts of things in order to help us cope...
A Beautiful Death
Keeping the Promise of Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE IS ABOUT TO DIE? In this compelling story of selfless courage and compassion, Cheryl Lafferty Eckl chronicles how she and her beloved husband, Stephen, moved beyond merely coping with his imminent death from colon cancer to approaching it as one of life's great...