Death category: 2756 books
Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)
A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CRITICS’ TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR
“In its loving, fierce specificity, this book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live” (The New York Times).
Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical,...
by Marc Crépon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the wars—or more precisely the memories of war—of the twentieth century, images of the deaths of countless faceless or nameless others eclipse the singularity of each victim’s death as well as the end of the world as such that each death signifies....
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...
Death Watch
A View from the Tenth Decade
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Gerald Stern, National Book Award-winning poet, creates a powerful new prose book in his ninth decades, as he contemplates mortality. In his characteristic audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic style, Stern looks back at his life and forward to how he will end his days.
Will he...
by The Abbotts
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
This unique book is the definitive guide on Death, covering such important subjects as, death of a lover, death of a child, death of a parent, death of a friend and also death of a loved pet. Controversial topics such as Death relating to murder, suicide, war, executions, terrorism, NDE's, reincarnation,...
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DEATH
A Practical Guide to Talking about End-of-Life Care and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Conversations About Death is the result Sally Cant’s twenty years in the death and dying industry. It contains a wealth of information that will make you feel more relaxed, open and comforted by talking about death and dying. Conversations About Death is a much needed tool: to assist in those...
by Ruth Penfold-Mounce
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Within popular culture, death is not the end, but instead a space where the dead can exert agency whilst entertaining the consumer. Popular culture enables the dead to be consumed by the living on a mass global scale, actively engaging them with issues of mortality.
This book develops the...
Death Talk, Second Edition
The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life...
Death and Dying
An Annotated Bibliography of the Thanatological Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
While it can be traced to the 1700s, the term thanatology has gained traction in recent decades to refer to the study of death. Because of the breadth of the published material and the challenges of discovery in large bibliographic databases and catalogs, finding and identifying monographic material...
The Forever Angels
Near-Death Experiences in Childhood and Their Lifelong Impact
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
A groundbreaking study of the lifelong effects of near-death experiences in the newly born, babies, toddlers, and children up to age five
• Draws on interviews with nearly 400 childhood experiencers, both fully matured and young, as well as more than 40 years of NDE research involving over...
Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner)
An Invitation and Guide to Life's Most Important Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
For readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed founder of Death over Dinner offers a practical, inspiring guide to life's most difficult yet important conversation
Of the many critical conversations we will all have throughout our lifetime, few are as important as the...
by Jane Filetic
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A death occurs about every twelve seconds in the United States, according to the US Census Bureau. What happens in the hours and days following a death is something most of us have no knowledge of. In Getting Smart about Death, author Jane Filetic changes that by sharing basic information that can...
Death and Suffering: A Christian Perspective
Facing the difficulties of life, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
This book came as a result of me looking for answers to some of those questions that burn in our hearts and minds when a young person dies. For me, it was the death of my niece, Debbie. This book started as just a list. Later I taught it in our midweek services at the church. Eventually I taught a...
The Power of Death
Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power...