Death Dying category: 510 books
Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan
A Biopsychosocial Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
"[Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan] represents a significant advance because it looks at the issues from a bio-psychosocial perspective. To a social worker who has worked mainly in a medical and nursing environment, this is a great step forward."
--Bereavement Care
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Letter to My Father
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse. When his father died, Tom found personal documents that revealed facets of his father’s life of which Tom had known nothing. Too traumatized to grieve properly,...
by EXO Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Captain Lincoln's last day is the hardest day of his life.
An old, onetime Captain of the interstellar spaceship USNAS Hope Eternal, Lincoln always knew that this day would come. For just as birthdays are carefully planned, so are deaths. And although he must reckon with his fate, this is...
Workplace Trauma
Concepts, Assessment and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
How can organisations defend their employees against psychological trauma?
Post-traumatic stress is a topical subject of increasing importance. Yet much of the writing on this subject so far has concerned stress suffered by people exposed to serious turmoil such as war and ethnic conflict....
Organ Transplants from Executed Prisoners
An Argument for Death Sentence Organ Removal Statutes, revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
In a revised and updated edition, this book continues the debate on whether transplantable organs of executed capital felons should be used to save lives. It provides the reader with relevant data and information necessary for making an informed and intelligent judgment of the matter. Every conceivable...
Last Works
Lessons in Leaving
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A powerful consideration of the lessons imparted in the final works of essential writers and philosophers
For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to...
Reimagining the Soul
Afterlife in the Age of Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
This book explores conceptions of the soul and the afterlife that are consistent with the findings of modern science. It approaches these subjects from many different angles: religious, philosophical, scientific, poetic, humorous, quasi-scientific, and even pseudoscientific (just to be fair). Many...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
"David Balk, who has devoted most of his professional life to teaching and especially with college students and their life journeys, offers Helping the Bereaved College Student as a major contribution to the field...The author meets an important need by addressing the presence of grief among...
The cremation of the dead - considered from an ae-legal, and economical standpoint
considered from an aestetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal and economical Standpoint
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
It is hardly necessary to explain the purpose of this work. It is an appeal to the general public; a plea for the burning of the dead. The period of fierce and fanatic opposition to cremation has passed, and made way for a calm consideration of the subject. In 1874 a Persian gentleman, then a resident...
The End of Heaven
Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually makes it harder to explain why we suffer. Accidents and disasters have become technical problems without...
by Mark Carrington
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Caring for someone you love who is suffering from a terminal illness can be one of the greatest honours in life. Helping a loved one to die with peace, grace and dignity is their human right and a privilege for their carer to enable. It can be a truly transformative experience. In Peaceful Breeze...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Disease and death are a part of life, but so too is being well. The lively voices found in this book are not shy about stating the ways in which the widely held notion that they are in decline has been a far larger problem than many other features of their lives. For students, scholars, and policy...
Understanding and Supporting Bereaved Children
A Practical Guide for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This practical guide provides a framework and useful techniques for helping bereaved youth in numerous settings
This welcomed addition to the field of childhood bereavement is brimming with innovative yet practical interventions for human service professionals helping grieving youth in a variety...
The Lotos-Eaters
Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
As the baby boom generation ages, there are few ethnographies that capture the dynamics of aging. This new book is based on years of participant observation in "the Sands," a beautiful ocean community of well-off individuals and couples seeking the easy life. Yet the community members contend...