Death Dying category: 510 books
by Howard Ball
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In 1900, the average age at which people died in America was 47 years of age; the primary causes of death were tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses. In the 21st century, as a result of better health care and working conditions as well as advances in medical technology, we live much longer—as...
Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan, Second Edition
A Biopsychosocial Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Praise for the First Edition:
"[This book] represents a significant advance because it looks at the issues from a bio-psychosocial perspective. To a social worker who has worked mainly in a medical and nursing environment, this is a great step forward."
--Bereavement Care
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by Francesca Di Marco
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Japan’s suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded in the debate on suicide have remained unaddressed in the existing literature, including the assumption that Japan is a "Suicide Nation". This tendency causes common misconceptions...
Murder Stories
Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural commitments to ‘American’ ideologies in the retention of capital punishment. The central aim of the study is to illuminate the elusive yet powerful role of ideology in legal discourses....
Passages and Afterworlds
Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity. Examining the relationship between living bodies...
Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty
Funerary Practices in the Kamehameha and Kalakaua Dynasties, 1819-1953
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
The bones of Hawaii’s King Kamehameha the Great were hidden at night in a secret location. In contrast, his successor Kamehameha III had a half-mile-long funeral procession to the Royal Tomb watched by thousands. Drawing on missionary journals, government publications and Hawaiian and English language...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Death Across Oceans: Archaeology of Coffins and Vaults in Britain, America, and Australia brings together the leading researchers in historic mortuary practice from Britain, North America, and Australia. It is the first book dedicated to the material culture associated with burial in the historic,...
All the Ghosts in the Machine
Illusions of Immortality in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
'As charming and touching as it is astute and insightful'
Adam Alter, New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink
'This a very useful book, even perhaps for people who have never been near a computer in their lives'
Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph
Seen any ghosts...
Suicide
The Final Curtain in the World of the Famous
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Contents
Introduction
Peg Entwistle 1908 –1932
Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
Tony Hancock 1924 – 1968
Paul Williams 1939 – 1973
Nick Drake 1948 – 1974
Freddie Prinze 1954 – 1977
Ian Curtis 1956 – 1980
The Von Erich Family 1960...
by Joelle Renstrom
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Closing the Book: Travels in Life, Loss, and Literature explores the intersection of literature and life in personal essays about traveling, teaching, reading, writing, living, and dying. Each essay's narrative arc is formed and informed by the act of reading literature that makes a reader feel like...
Bad Call
A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
An adrenaline-fueled read that will stay with you long after you turn the final page, BAD CALL is a "compulsively readable, totally unforgettable"* memoir about working on a New York City ambulance in the 1960s. (*James Patterson)
Bad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving,...
Journeying East
Conversations of Aging and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
Some of the West's foremost spiritual teachers share their thoughts on aging and the end of life process. Comprehensive and original interviews with Ram Dass, Michael Eigen, Norman Fischer, Joan Halifax, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Chan Khong, Frank Ostaseski, Rodney Smith, and John Wellwood provide new...
by Nicky Silver
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
"Comedy nirvana . . . satisfyingly mean and funny."-New York Post
"Without sacrificing his mordant wit or bleak worldview, this distinctive dramatist shows a new maturity and empathy in."?The New York Times
"Nicky Silver's terrific play is filled with moments...
The Caregivers
A Support Group's Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A moving, intimate, and compassionate book that chronicles the experiences of a group of long-term caregivers—spouses, parents, and friends of the elderly and ill—illuminating critical issues of old age, end-of-life care, medical reform, and social policy—and “providing comfort in the time-honored...