Death Dying category: 510 books
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Life After Death
A Fascinating Exploration of Afterlife Concepts and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Get an (after) life!
A belief in the afterlife is common to almost every faith and culture around the world. Even people who don't consider themselves 'spiritual' share a fascination in life after death. In this powerful guide, author and intuitive Diane Ahlquist shares her own knowledge of...
by Jim Hewitson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
In Dead Weird, Jim Hewitson is let loose on the ultimate taboo and finds that death can be fun for all the family, a good day out or the perfect excuse for a booze up or a fight. Executions, grizzly murders, raising the dead, battlefield carnage, clean-in-between-the-sheets death, traditions, proverbs,...
A Widow's Guide to Healing
Gentle Support and Advice for the First 5 Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
An inspiring, accessible, and empowering guide for how to navigate the unique grief and challenges of widowhood and create a hopeful future.
When Kristin Meekhof lost her husband to cancer, she discovered what all widows learn: the moment you lose your partner, you must make crucial decisions...
The Black Mirror
Looking at Life through Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In this beautifully written, personal meditation on life and living, Raymond Tallis reflects on the fundamental fact of existence: that it is finite. Inspired by E. M. Forster’s thought that “Death destroys a man but the idea of it saves him,” Tallis invites readers to look back upon their lives...
Gone to the Grave
Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Before there was a death care industry where professional funeral directors offered embalming and other services, residents of the Arkansas Ozarks--and, for that matter, people throughout the South--buried their own dead. Every part of the complicated, labor-intensive process was handled within the...
Love and Grief
The Dilemma of Facing Love After Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
A welcome read for the lay person who has been bereaved and is now experiencing the difficulties of loving again.'
- British Journal of Social Work
'For someone who is wrestling with the dilemmas of a new relationship, this is a comforting read which presents the candid accounts of other...
Summary: When Breath Becomes Air - Summarized for Busy People
Based on the Book by Paul Kalanithi
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.
Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed...
by Ashley Davis Bush
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
“Compassionate, poignant, and practical. . . . Transcending Loss will be a great blessing on your lifetime journey of recovery.”—Harold Bloomfield, MD, psychiatrist and author of How to Survive the Loss of Love and How to Heal Depression
Death doesn’t end a relationship, it simply forges...
What Children Need When They Grieve
The Four Essentials: Routine, Love, Honesty, and Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
GIVE YOUR CHILDREN WHAT THEY NEED MOST
When Julia Wilcox Rathkey lost her husband, her three children lost their father. Within hours, it became sharply clear that each child--a twelve-year-old daughter and twin ten-year-old sons--would grieve the loss in a radically different way. While one...
Immortality, Inc.
Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
This gripping narrative explores today's scientific pursuit of immortality, with exclusive visits inside Silicon Valley labs and interviews with the visionaries who believe we will soon crack into the aging process and cure death.
We live in an age when billionaires are betting their fortunes...
At Home with Grief
Continued Bonds with the Deceased
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
What would you say to a deceased loved one if they could come back for one day? What if you can’t just ‘move on’ from grief? *At Home with Grief: Continued Bonds with the Deceased *chronicles Blake Paxton’s autoethnographic study of his continued relationship with his deceased mother....
Death at the Ballpark
More Than 2,000 Game-Related Fatalities of Players, Other Personnel and Spectators in Amateur and Professional Baseball, 1862-2014, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark—rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game’s history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime. In its second edition, this ground-breaking...
Mirrors of Passing
Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. Mirrors of Passing offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how little this disposal method is understood by archaeologists and students of cognate disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In this regard, the...