Death Dying category: 510 books
by Marian Carter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
How can children begin to understand death and cope with bereavement? And how can we, as adults, support and engage with children as they encounter this complex subject?
Exploring how children and adolescents can engage with all aspects of death, dying and bereavement, this comprehensive guide...
Becoming Dead Right
A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
All of us are entitled to the rewards of a peaceful, pain-free death. This book honors that with true stories about hospice patients and inspiring insights from the author. Becoming Dead Right guides us through the general and "how to" information maze that prepares us for dealing with death.
Improving...
The Aesthetic Experience of Dying
The Dance to Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Structured around a personal account of the illness and death of the author’s partner, Jane, this book explores how something hard to bear became a threshold to a world of insight and discovery.
Drawing on German Idealism and Jane’s own research in the area, The Aesthetic Experience of...
What death means now
Thinking critically about dying and grieving
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live. Dying and grieving continually evolve: new preparations for dying, new kinds of funerals, new ways of handling grief and new ways to memorialise are developing all the time. Bringing 25 years of research and teaching...
Death and the Migrant
Bodies, Borders and Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Death and the Migrant is a sociological account of transnational dying and care in British cities. It chronicles two decades of the ageing and dying of the UK's cohort of post-war migrants, as well as more recent arrivals.
Chapters of oral history and close ethnographic observation, enriched...
by Cory Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
**"Bracing and beautiful . . . Every human should read it." —The New York Times
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and 2017 Critics' Pick
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2017**
At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer....
Nearing Death Awareness
A Guide to the Language, Visions, and Dreams of the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Dying is a complex experience for the dying person and their family, friends, and carers, that involves all aspects of what it means to be human: physical, mental, and spiritual. The author describes different types of Nearing Death Awareness (NDA), including visions, dreams, and symbolic language, and...
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 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...
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...
Dying to Eat
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into...
Advance Care Planning
Communicating About Matters of Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
"This is a very substantive book that encompasses the various aspects of advance care planning, both prior to and after a diagnosis of a life-limiting disease. The realistic case studies help readers understand the complexities of decision-making by the individual and the family."--Doody's...
Holding Space
On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A look at the spiritual, emotional, and philosophical implications of end-of-life care by an elegant and literary writer who is a hospital chaplain.
As a hospital chaplain, Amy Wright Glenn has been present with those suffering from suicide, trauma, disease, and unforeseen accidents and has...
by Jennifer Collins Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is a call to action for you to find the courage, comfort and confidence to have conversations about death and dying, with the overarching hope that you will embrace living well and dying well.