Death category: 2756 books
Death Takes Time
Make the Best Use of Your Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Life, your gift from God. Living, your purpose, responsibly fulfilling the time He gives you in this world. Death, your legacy, leaving behind a spiritual heritage that counts eternally. . . . Dr. Gene Baillie shares his perspective on a part of life we all must face and offers encouragement and suggestions...
by Connie Saindon
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
“The Journey: Learning to Live with Violent Death” leads people through a healing process after losing a family member or friend in a violent death. The workbook is written for individuals and facilitators of grief support groups. It is based on the Restorative Retelling model developed by Dr....
Otherworld Journeys
Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1988
Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating "near-death" experiences have appeared in the past decade. People who have survived a close brush with death reveal their extraordinary visions and ecstatic feelings at the moment they died, describing journeys through a tunnel to a realm...
The Worm at the Core
On the Role of Death in Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
A transformative, fascinating theory—based on robust and groundbreaking experimental research—reveals how our unconscious fear of death powers almost everything we do, shining a light on the hidden motives that drive human behavior
More than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher...
by Samuel C. Heilman
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
An encounter with the death of another is often an occasion when the bereaved need to be sustained in their loss, relieved of the anxiety that the meeting with death engenders, and comforted in their grief. It is a time when those left behind often seek to redress wrongs in themselves or in the relationships...
Emotion, Identity and Death
Mortality Across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Death affects all aspects of life, it touches our emotions and influences our identity. Presenting a kaleidoscope of informative views of death, dying and human response, this book reveals how different disciplines contribute to understanding the theme of death. Drawing together new and established...
by The Abbotts
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
This sensitive & practical book examines what really happens during the dying process & after death. This book has been written in a gentle & enlightened way to help you overcome your fear of dying & death & view death in a completely different manner. This book also sympathetically...
Economies of Death
Economic logics of killable life and grievable death
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death examines the economic logic involved in determining whose lives and deaths come to matter and why. Drawing from eight distinct case studies focused on the killability and grievability of certain humans, animals, and environmental...
In the Slender Margin
The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
“Each of the wonderfully specific tales in this book feels like an antidote to the familiar Hallmark clichés about death and loss” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
Eve Joseph is an award-winning poet who worked for twenty years as a palliative care counselor in a hospice. When she was a...
by Jessica Mitford
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and...
The End
The Human Experience Of Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A fascinating exploration of the universal human experience of death. We sat around and on the bed, laughing and joking as if this was a typical family gathering. The shrunken form of our dying grandmother lay on the bed, breathing fast and shallow, her once-bright eyes half closed and sunken in their...
The Art of Death
Writing the Final Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light
Edwidge Danticat’s The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other...
The Good Death
The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
The Good Death is the first full-scale examination of one of today's most complex issues: the profound change in the way Americans think about and confront death. Drawing on more than six years of firsthand research and reporting, noted journalist Marilyn Webb builds her account around intimate portraits...
I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye
Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The grief books that just "gets it".
Each year about eight million Americans suffer the unexpected death of a loved one. For those who face the challenges of sudden death, the classic guide I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye offers a comforting hand to hold, written by two authors who...