Death Dying category: 510 books
Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner)
An Invitation and Guide to Life's Most Important Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
For readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed founder of Death over Dinner offers a practical, inspiring guide to life's most difficult yet important conversation
Of the many critical conversations we will all have throughout our lifetime, few are as important as the...
Life Sentences
The Modern Ordering of Mortality
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2008
Death has popularly had the reputation of being the last of life's great mysteries, a subject of speculation, and as a foreboding event both inevitable, and feared. In Life Sentences, Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, and to...
Death and Suffering: A Christian Perspective
Facing the difficulties of life, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
This book came as a result of me looking for answers to some of those questions that burn in our hearts and minds when a young person dies. For me, it was the death of my niece, Debbie. This book started as just a list. Later I taught it in our midweek services at the church. Eventually I taught a...
by David Balk, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
"Childrenís Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping is a very well researched document and well written by an impressive cadre of scholars....The book is a must read for marriage and family therapists, clergy, and pediatric care givers whose work intersects the lives of children and the...
Suicide and Agency
Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide. Through the use of rich and detailed case studies, the authors assembled in this volume explore how interplay of self-harm, suicide, personhood and agency varies markedly across site (Greenland, Siberia,...
Endnotes
An Intimate Look at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befriended an eighty-two-year-old man suffering from Parkinson's. The two remained close until the end of his life, sharing stories and memories while building a deep relationship. Part memoir, part biography, Endnotes explores how people...
Last Rights
Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
"This country is fairly crowded with doctors, families, and patients—all possessed of good intentions—failing to achieve the simple goal of allowing people to die with dignity and grace."
In the 1970s, most Americans died swiftly and brutally: of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, or in...
by Barbara Brodman
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
"The word death is not pronounced in New York, in Paris, in London, because it burns the lips. The Mexican, in contrast, is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it, it is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love." Thus Octavio Paz describes...
Otherworld Journeys
Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1988
Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating "near-death" experiences have appeared in the past decade. People who have survived a close brush with death reveal their extraordinary visions and ecstatic feelings at the moment they died, describing journeys through a tunnel to a realm...
The Worm at the Core
On the Role of Death in Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
A transformative, fascinating theory—based on robust and groundbreaking experimental research—reveals how our unconscious fear of death powers almost everything we do, shining a light on the hidden motives that drive human behavior
More than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This book addresses key historical, scientific, legal, and philosophical issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States as well as in other countries and cultures.
• Addresses the extended history of debates regarding the ethical justifiability of assisted suicide...
by Samuel C. Heilman
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
An encounter with the death of another is often an occasion when the bereaved need to be sustained in their loss, relieved of the anxiety that the meeting with death engenders, and comforted in their grief. It is a time when those left behind often seek to redress wrongs in themselves or in the relationships...
Economies of Death
Economic logics of killable life and grievable death
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death examines the economic logic involved in determining whose lives and deaths come to matter and why. Drawing from eight distinct case studies focused on the killability and grievability of certain humans, animals, and environmental...
by Jessica Mitford
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and...