Death Dying category: 510 books
Emotion, Identity and Death
Mortality Across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Death affects all aspects of life, it touches our emotions and influences our identity. Presenting a kaleidoscope of informative views of death, dying and human response, this book reveals how different disciplines contribute to understanding the theme of death. Drawing together new and established...
by The Abbotts
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
This sensitive & practical book examines what really happens during the dying process & after death. This book has been written in a gentle & enlightened way to help you overcome your fear of dying & death & view death in a completely different manner. This book also sympathetically...
The Way We Die Now
The View from Medicine's Front Line
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors, and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope....
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
With DeadSocial™ one can create messages to be published to social networks after death. Facebook's "If I Die" enables users to create a video or text message for posthumous publication. Twitter _LIVESON accounts will keep tweeting even after the user is gone. There is no doubt that the digital...
by Barney G. Glaser, Anselm L. Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Should patients be told they are dying? How do families react when one of their members is facing death? Who should reveal that death is imminent? How does hospital staff-doctors, nurses, and attendants-act toward the dying patient and his family?
Final Moments
Nurses' Stories about Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
What was it like the first time a nurse witnessed death? How do nurses cope with death when it becomes almost routine? What lessons can we learn from their experiences?
Twenty-five nurses—from hospitals, private practices, and in home health care—tell about their experiences with death....
Dying with Dignity: A Legal Approach to Assisted Death
A Legal Approach to Assisted Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad.
• Provides comprehensive,...
by Christopher Shinn
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
“The finest new American play I’ve seen in a long while . . . Dying City is a political play and also a psychodrama about what Arthur Miller called the politics of the soul. It’s about public conscience and private grief, and real and symbolic catastrophes.”—The New York Observer
“Anyone...
Let's Get Your Party Started
Growing up, aging, and dying-a Martian's perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
If Martians were to visit Earth would they be perplexed to find that some folks need a reminder to celebrate each year of their lives? Do you mark your birthdates with cake and a bit of frivolity? Do you spend any quiet time on your birthdays to reflect on the life path you have thus far taken? Do...
Peaceful Passages
A Hospice Nurse's Stories of Dying Well
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Joy is a word rarely associated with death. Yet joy is ultimately the effect in this collection of stories about Janet Wehr’s experiences in witnessing the death of her patients during her fifteen years as a hospice nurse. Her first-hand account gives illuminating and comforting insight into the...
Let's Talk About it!
Finding Peace with Death and Dying in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Let's Talk About It is the essential book on death and dying to transform the way we die. Lea’s unique and innovative approach educates us on: finding the courage to face our fear of death; empowerment for making conscious choices; creating a care team of family and friends to support real connection;...
Passed On
African American Mourning Stories, A Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2002
Passed On is a portrait of death and dying in twentieth-century African America. Through poignant reflection and thorough investigation of the myths, rituals, economics, and politics of African American mourning and burial practices, Karla FC Holloway finds that ways of dying are just as much a part...
A Better Way of Dying
How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
The fail-safe plan for ensuring one's final wishes are respected
Advanced directives and living wills have improved our ability to dictate end-of-life care, but even these cannot guarantee that we will be allowed the dignity of a natural death. Designed by two sisters-one a doctor, one a...