Death Dying category: 510 books
Funeral Culture
AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa’s last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people...
Final Journeys
A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
For more than two decades, hospice nurse Maggie Callanan has tended to the terminally ill and been a cornerstone of support for their loved ones. Now the coauthor of the classic bestseller Final Giftspasses along the lessons she has learned from the experts—her patients. Here is the guide we all...
Choosing How We Die
The Experiences of Those Who Did
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Choosing How We Die compels the reader to see his or her own journey through the dying process as something we can only consider when we are healthy and as a gift to those we leave behind after we are physically dead. These true stories of four people who made the choice of facing their own death...
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...
Counseling Clients Near the End of Life
A Practical Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
"I found this book to be a well-written, sensitively presented, and important resource for those engaged in this critical area of work. Thank you, Dr. Werth, for making such a substantial contribution to this field."--Journal of Palliative Care
"[This book offers] over 20 contributors,...
Assisted Dying
Who Makes the Final Decision
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The latest developments in the arguments for and against assisted dying, with a foreword by Terry Pratchett
Assisted dying is perhaps one of the most divisive issues of the modern age, generating endless headlines and moral debates. Published in conjunction with the organization Dignity in...
Bereavement Narratives
Continuing bonds in the twenty-first century
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Bereavement is often treated as a psychological condition of the individual with both healthy and pathological forms. However, this empirically-grounded study argues that this is not always the best or only way to help the bereaved. In a radical departure, it emphasises normality and social and cultural...
Death, Disability, and the Superhero
The Silver Age and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities--disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studies--José Alaniz seeks to redefine the contemporary...
Right Thoughts at the Last Moment
Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on the late tenth through...
The Land Is Dying
Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life....
by The Abbotts
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
The Abbotts explore the controversial subject of Death in a new & reassuring way. They introduce us to Archangel Azriel, a loving & compassionate angel who cares for each of us on our journey Home to Heaven. Subjects covered include death through disease, war, suicide, drug overdoses, euthanasia & the grieving process. Ease your concerns about death & dying - today. A Beacon of Light Book.
Palliative Care
The 400-Year Quest for a Good Death
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
The long history of medical care for the dying has largely been neglected. It began in 1605 when physicians were challenged to enable persons to die peacefully. Today it includes palliation of oppressive symptoms, emotional and psychological care, and respect for the wishes and cultural backgrounds...
Launching Vee’S Chariot
An End-Of-Life Tale
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Dying a good death is Vee Rileys final wish, and she believes a good death is a conscious death. In the grip of end-stage cancer, she decides how she will interact with her deteriorating physical condition, while letting go of family and friends, her home, and her independence. For most of her life,...
by Catherine Strong, Barbara Lebrun
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012, have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music, fame and death. If the phrase ’sex, drugs...