Death category: 2756 books
Death, American Style
A Cultural History of Dying in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
The notion of one day disappearing from the earth forever is contrary to many of America’s defining cultural values, with death and dying viewed as “un-American” experiences. Arguing that death and dying may be our last major taboo, this book shows how death and dying became almost unmentionable...
Death, Dying, and Bereavement
Contemporary Perspectives, Institutions, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Delivers the collective wisdom of foremost scholars and practitioners in the death and dying movement from its inception to the present.
Written by luminaries who have shaped the field, this capstone book distills the collective wisdom of foremost scholars and practitioners who together have...
The Five Invitations
Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most.
Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot truly...
Making Friends with Death
A Field Guide for Your Impending Last Breath (to be read, ideally, before it's imminent!)
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Death is a great and grand mystery, and the actual act of dying is the last physical act of our lives. We can do it well, like a graceful well-rehearsed piano solo—or we can do it like that first awkward dance with a middle-school crush. But if anything deserves our full attention, some preparation,...
A Traveler's Guide to the Afterlife
Traditions and Beliefs on Death, Dying, and What Lies Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
A grand survey of the world’s death and afterlife traditions throughout history
• Examines beliefs from many different cultures on the soul, heaven, hell, and reincarnation; instructions for accessing the different worlds of the afterlife; how one may become a god; and how ethics and the...
by Dr. Penny Sartori
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Death is the only certainty in life yet many people shy away from thinking about it until something drastic happens such as the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness, or the sudden death of a loved one, which can throw us into turmoil. Yet, paradoxically, contemplating death and the frequently-experienced...
by Robert Kastenbaum, Christopher M. Moreman
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Providing an overview of the myriad ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as an individual and as a member of society, this book will help readers understand our relationship with death. Kastenbaum and Moreman show how various ways that individual and societal attitudes influence both...
by Steve Pavlina
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Do you believe in life after death?Too often I find that the subject of death is addressed with goofy speculation, close-minded stubbornness, or outright fear and avoidance. So let's bypass the "Death for Dummies" approach and take a deeper intellectual look at death to better understand...
Making Friends with Death
A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2001
In Making Friends with Death, Buddhist teacher Judith Lief, who's drawn her inspiration from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, shows us that through the powerful combination of contemplation of death and mindfulness practice, we can change how we relate to death, enhance our appreciation of everyday...
by Amy Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
What do all human beings have in common? Despite all the self-help books about sex, money, power, happiness, weight, and relationships, there is one thing we all face that none of that guidance can prevent . . . death.
What if we weren’t so afraid of death, or of even talking about it?
The...
by Diane Goble
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
The author had a near-death experience in 1971 and was given certain information to bring back with her to share with others. For the past 40 years she has been working in the field of death and dying as a spiritual counselor, hospice volunteer, and is the author of several books and a major NDE web...
by PV Villa Nuevo
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2011
The greatest fault found in other grief and loss books is they have not “systemized” the understanding process. Popular works have the information the reader needs so desperately spread throughout their pages or contained in multiple books.
There was a need for a book that plainly and simply...
Saying Goodbye
My Spiritual Journey Through Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Saying Goodbye: My Spiritual Journey through Death and Dying dares to face the basic reality that so much of modern culture strains itself to deny: everyone who lives will die. The hope and the encouragement come, not in pretending that death will not happen, but in shaping the way in which one says...
Life Sentences
The Modern Ordering of Mortality
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2008
Death has popularly had the reputation of being the last of life's great mysteries, a subject of speculation, and as a foreboding event both inevitable, and feared. In Life Sentences, Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, and to...