Death category: 2756 books
Life After Death
A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
A magisterial work of social history, Life After Death illuminates the many different ways ancient civilizations grappled with the question of what exactly happens to us after we die.
In a masterful exploration of how Western civilizations have defined the afterlife, Alan F. Segal weaves together...
Don't Let Death Ruin Your Life
A Practical Guide to Reclaiming Happiness after the Death of a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2002
In her unique guide, Jill Brooke reveals how to cope with grief and turn this time of sadness into an opportunity for positive change and growth.
Although they are no longer physically with us, we can keep our loved ones emotionally and spiritually close by incorporating their memories into...
Understanding Death
The Most Important Event of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Understanding Death: The Most Important Event of Your Life illustrates the need to prepare for this important moment, even though many ignore its inevitability. There is no escape from death and the grief that can consume one when faced by the loss of family and friends. The author’s personal insight...
On Grief and Grieving
Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Shortly before her death in 2004, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler, her collaborator, completed the manuscript for this, her final book. On Grief and Grieving is a fitting completion to her work. Thirty-six years and sixteen books ago, Kübler-Ross's groundbreaking On Death and Dying changed...
by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
On Children and Death is a major addition to the classic works of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, whose On Death and Dying and Living with Death and Dying have been continuing sources of strength and solace for tens of millions of devoted readers worldwide. Based on a decade of working with dying children,...
The Undead
Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Important and provocative, The Undead examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear and how this problem has been further complicated by the business of organ harvesting.
Dick Teresi, a science...
And a Time to Die
How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Most Americans, when pressed, have a vague sense of how they would like to die. They may imagine a quick and painless end or a gentle passing away during sleep. Some may wish for time to prepare and make peace with themselves, their friends, and their families. Others would prefer not to know what's...
Death on Demand
Jack Kevorkian and the Right-to-Die Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Death on Demand explores the polarizing role of Jack Kevorkian—“Dr. Death”—as the most visible leader of the right-to-die movement. From a feature on the cover of Time magazine to interviews on shows like 60 Minutes, Kevorkian was a high-profile figure in the right-to-die movement, capturing...
Swimming in a Sea of Death
A Son's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is...
by James Lindsay
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Life is short, and it can be sweet. Contemplating death is looking into a mirror that allows us to see these simple facts clearly, as if for the first time. We have every reason to believe that we have but one life to live—and no good reasons to believe otherwise—and death marks the termination...
On Loss and Living Onward
Collected Voices for the Grieving and Those Who Would Mourn with Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
After experiencing the loss of her first-born son, Melissa Dalton-Bradford thrust herself into literature searching for those who have experienced similar, devastating loss. What she found was comfort and guidance to help her overcome the pain of losing a loved one and the faith to face her own life...
Your Soul's Plan eChapters - Chapter 6: Death of a Loved One
Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Would you like to understand the deeper spiritual meaning and purpose of death, grief, mourning, and bereavement?
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Your Soul’s Plan eChapters: Death of a Loved One contains the Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1: Pre-birth Planning, and Chapter 6: Death of a Loved One from Robert Schwartz’s...
Knocking on Heaven's Door
The Path to a Better Way of Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In this visionary memoir, based on a groundbreaking New York Times Magazine story, award-winning journalist Katy Butler ponders her parents’ desires for “Good Deaths” and the forces within medicine that stood in the way.
Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her vigorous and...
Happier Endings
A Meditation on Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
We are all going to die, but some of us will die better.
As a spiritual teacher based in the Washington, D.C., area, Erica Brown has attracted a strong following among those looking for practical wisdom based on the world’s most revered and treasured religious texts. Here she shares stories...