Death category: 2756 books
by Masami Saionji
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
While we live in this world, most of us think about death with feelings of uneasiness. This is because our consciousness has become strongly attached to our physical existence, and we identify ourselves as physical beings. We also fear death as something that we will have to go through all alone,...
by Brandy Schillace
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In the tradition of Being Mortal, Brandy Schillace looks at what we can learn from the incredibly diverse ways in which humans have dealt with mortality in different times and places
Death is something we all confront—it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used...
Glimpsing Heaven
The Stories and Science of Life After Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
If you caught a glimpse of heaven, would you choose to come back to life? Investigative journalist Judy Bachrach has collected accounts of those who died and then returned to life with lucid, vivid memories of what occurred while they were dead, and the conclusions are astonishing. Clinical death—the...
We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down
Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Rachael Hanel’s name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn’t at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family’s business. Her parents were forty-two years old and in good health when they...
Talking About Death Won’t Kill You
The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This practical handbook will equip readers with the tools to have meaningful conversations about death and dying
Death is a part of life. We used to understand this, and in the past, loved ones generally died at home with family around them. But in just a few generations, death has become a...
The Dreamer's Book of the Dead
A Soul Traveler's Guide to Death, Dying, and the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
A guidebook for communicating with the departed and gaining first-hand knowledge of life beyond death
• Reveals that the easiest way to communicate with the departed is through dreams
• Offers methods for helpful and timely communication with deceased loved ones
• Provides...
Passings
Death, Dying, and Unexplained Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
From dream research and global belief systems to such unexplained phenomena as bright lights, prescient dreams, near-death and out-of-body experiences, Passings delves into every aspect of the end of life. Taking a scientific and anthropological approach, Carole A. Travis-Henikoff looks at how other...
A Beautiful Death
Facing the Future with Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
What does it take to face death, loss, and grief with confidence and peace? Cheryl Eckl is reluctantly forced to play hostess to life’s most unwelcome guest when her husband, Stephen, is diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a few short years to live. In A Beautiful Death, her powerful insights,...
End of Life Stories
Tips and Tools for the Souls Journey Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
End of Life Stories: Tips and Tools for the Soul’s Journey Home is an extraordinary book designed to ease people’s suffering in the face of death. Here, anxious loved ones of individuals who are at the end of their lives will find comfort, wisdom and acceptance through the stories of someone who...
A Matter of Life and Death
60 Voices Share their Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
A Holocaust survivor whose mother collapsed and died only moments after they both registered as survivors, a death row inmate who has reclaimed his life through Buddhism, and a mother whose daughter was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer two days before her thirtieth birthday, among others, offer...
The Best Death
How to Die Well
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with a terminal illness, how do you plan for the best death possible? In April 2008 Sarah Winch's husband, Lincoln, died from kidney cancer that was diagnosed only four months earlier. He was 48. Sarah and Lincoln prepared as best they could for his death....
by Claire Leimbach,Zenith Virago,Trypheyna McShane
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
A warm, reassuring and very practical book on dealing with death and dying. When someone we love dies suddenly, or after a serious illness, we're often left wondering if we could have done more. How prepared are we to care for loved ones, talk to children about death, deal with the death of young...
The Modern Art of Dying
A History of Euthanasia in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom.
Lavi begins with the historical meaning of...
by Peter Erceg
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The death of a loved one is a difficult and emotional time for everyone. For most of us, coping with death and planning a funeral is one of the most difficult things we will ever be asked to do. Yet, we are generally unaware of our funeral rights and don’t know how we can have genuine and meaningful...