Death category: 2756 books
by Loren Mayshark
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
In this Award-Winning Book You Will Discover Insights about Coping with Life's Most Feared MysteryThis book will help anyone who is interested in learning more about death, coping with a loss, approaching death, or explaining death to a child. It is an exploratory journey that includes multiple...
Five Meditations on Death
In Other Words . . . On Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Philosophical discussions on the ways that death makes life meaningful and sacred
• Reveals how being conscious of death gives our fate its full meaning, inviting the reader to contemplate life in the light of their own death
• Examines the author’s experience of ancestor worship...
Beyond Death Anxiety
Achieving Life-Affirming Death Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
"This book fruitfully serves those looking to apply Ernest Beckerís ideas psychotherapeutically, in individual counseling or in group therapy. A capstone to Robert Firestoneís 50 years of work in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and psychiatry and to the numerous books written by these authors,...
The Good Death
An Exploration of Dying in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States.
When Ann Neumann’s father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania....
Death
The Scientific Facts to Help Us Understand It Better
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Our love of life makes the inevitability of death very difficult to accept. Death is a comprehensive examination of that inevitable and universal human experience. To better our understanding of death--and so perhaps fear it less--the book explains the biological processes and the different causes...
How to Overcome Death
The Final Victory
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2000
The overcoming of death is a serious undertaking because death is a part of the nature one one's being; and therefore, not what it appears to be. When Death is reconciled with life, it becomes a means of interdimensional travel. We realize that it wasnt there in the first place.
Therefore,...
Dying, Death, and Grief in an Online Universe
For Counselors and Educators
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
"[This book] is an excellent resource for the diverse practitioners and educators who are involved in this nascent area."--Cruse Bereavement Care
"[This] book is innovative and timely, challengingthe reader to think 'out of the box.' Sofka,Cupit, and Gilbert provide a framework...
Beyond the Good Death
The Anthropology of Modern Dying
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In November 1998, millions of television viewers watched as Thomas Youk died. Suffering from the late stages of Lou Gehrig's disease, Youk had called upon infamous Michigan pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian to help end his life on his own terms. After delivering the videotape to 60 Minutes, Kevorkian...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A thought-provoking examination of death, dying, and the afterlife
Prominent scholars present their most recent work about mortuary rituals, grief and mourning, genocide, cyclical processes of life and death, biomedical developments, and the materiality of human corpses in this unique and illuminating...
Death, Ritual and Belief
The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which...
by Greta Christina
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
If you don't believe in God or an afterlife -- how do you cope with death?Accepting death is never easy. But we don't need religion to find peace, comfort, and solace in the face of death. In this mini-book collection of essays, prominent atheist author Greta Christina offers secular...
The Caretaker of All Souls
An Intimate Interview with Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2016
Cristina Carballo-Perelman, M.D. has been a physician for over 30 years, providing care and comfort to many of her patients as they take their last breath.
In her book, The Caretaker of All Souls: An Intimate Interview with Death, Death takes center stage as the commentator of the experiences...
Talking about Death
A Dialogue between Parent and Child
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Why do people die? How do you explain the loss of a loved one to a child? This book is a compassionate guide for adults and children to read together, featuring a read-along story and answers to questions children ask about death.
Talking about Death is a classic guide for parents helping their...
The Art of Living and Dying
Celebrating Life and Celebrating Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Why are we afraid of death? What is acceptance in the face of cancer? How do I decide whose advice to take? How to relax in the certainty of death? Ought we to tell someone when they are dying or not? Is the theory of reincarnation true? What is happening around the dying? How best to support a dying...