Death Dying category: 510 books
Facing Death
Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
What do we learn about death from the Holocaust and how does it impact our responses to mortality today?
Facing Death: Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves brings together the work of eleven Holocaust and genocide scholars who address these difficult questions, convinced of...
Greening Death
Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways—no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States.
Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable...
The Drama of Love and Death
A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Love and Death are two major facets of the whole of human existence and in The Drama of Love and Death, Carpenter attempts to analyse the interplay of love and death in everyday life. Originally published in 1912, this study focuses on how love and death are perceived and treated in the history of...
When We Die
The Science, Culture, and Rituals of Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
An unusually comprehensive study of death as both a social and scientific phenomenon, When We Die is as frank as it is informed. This far-reaching discussion considers mortality from the personal and the universal perspective, generously citing past and present poets and physicians from a diverse...
by Malachy McCourt, Brian McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Before he runs out of time, Irish bon vivant MALACHY MCCOURT shares his views on death - sometimes hilarious and often poignant - and on what will or won't happen after his last breath is drawn.
During the course of his life, Malachy McCourt practically invented the single's bar; was a pioneer...
Death, Loss, and Grief in Literature for Youth
A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
All human beings encounter loss and death, as well as the grief associated with these experiences. It is therefore important for children and adolescents to understand that such events are inevitable and to learn how to accept loss and cope with their emotions. In order to help children through their...
by Janice Hume
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2000
What obituaries tell us about our culture, past and present "Within the short period of a year she was a bride, a beloved wife and companion, a mother, a corpse," reported The National Intelligencer on the death of Elizabeth Buchanan in 1838. Such obituaries fascinate us. Few of us realize that,...
Blood Beneath My Feet
The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Have you ever been locked in a cooler with piles of decomposing humans for so long that you had to shave all the hair off your body in order to get rid of the smell? Joseph Scott Morgan did. Have you ever lit a Marlboro from the ignited gas of a bloated dead man's belly? Joseph Scott Morgan has. Have...
A Better Place
Death and Burial in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
A Better Place describes the practices around death and burial in 19th-century Ontario. Funeral rituals, strong religious beliefs, and a firm conviction that death was a beginning not an end helped the bereaved through their times of loss in a century where death was always close at hand.
The...
by Timothy Leary
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Death is increasingly on the agenda for baby boomers moving ever closer to it. Timothy Leary brings some startlingly fresh ideas to this topic.
Fundamentally, he claims, we have been brainwashed by our institutions - government, organized religion, the healthcare industry - to accept death...
Celebrating Life
Words of Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Reinforcing the 1-800-FLOWERS.COM and Celebrations.com philosophy of helping customers express, connect, and celebrate, Jim McCann balances the practical with the poignant inside Celebrating Life. More than just a collection of sympathetic sentiments, Celebrating Life serves as a catalyst for sharing...
Death and the Afterlife
A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Throughout history, the nature and mystery of death has captivated artists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, and theologians. This eerie chronology ventures right to the borderlines of science and sheds light into the darkness. Here, topics as wide ranging as the Maya death gods, golems, and...
Raising the Dead
Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2000
Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the...
by Francis Douce
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
The manner in which the poets and artists of antiquity have symbolized or personified Death, has excited considerable discussion; and the various opinions of Lessing, Herder, Klotz, and other controversialists have only tended to demonstrate that the ancients adopted many different modes to accomplish...