Death Dying category: 510 books

Suicide, and how civilized people should respond to it, is an increasingly controversial topic in modern society. In Holland, suicide is the third leading cause of death of people between the ages of fifteen and forty. In the United States, it is the second leading cause of death among older teenagers....

A chilling memoir of the Tri-State Crematory incident In February 2002, hundreds of abandoned and decayed bodies were discovered at the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, making it the largest mass desecration in modern American history. The perpetrator—a well-respected family man and...

Everyone knows that the ancient Egyptians were great mummifiers, and their sarcophagi and bandage-wrapped corpses are familiar images to us all. Yet across the vast sweep of history, we find many other great cultures in which the bodies of the dead were preserved as a matter of course. In coastal...

Why do people like scary books? It gives them the opportunity to face their fears. When it comes to death what do you fear? Do you fear you will not make it to heaven? Do you panic at the thought that there may be something other than nothingness after death? Does hell really exists and worst...

A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortality As long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries and utopians who are pressing at the...

We all have reasons for doing the things we do. We all have our own realities.It is my blessing to have more than one. — Hilary Jamron When Hilary died, part of her soul refused to come back. That part of her higher self chose to remain where peace and simplicity reign. From...

David Welborn has a unique profession. He transports the dead from where they fell, and in whatever condition they passed. Car accidents, suicides, homicides, and drug overdoses become common place for him as he grapples these horrors. He soon realizes that this tight knit profession is unknown to...

"This volume is likely to become the stimulus for more than one series of sermons . . . More importantly, it may well stimulate its readers to live life now and die well because they have learned to live with eternity in view, cherishing the blessed promises and consolations of the gospel of Jesus Christ."

"Beautifully written and informative. Harris' eloquence is exceeded only by the compassion and insight she brings to this perplexing and formative experience."-Vamik D. Volkan, Univ. of Virginia.

“Calling in the Soul” (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on extensive original research conducted in the late 1980s in a village in northern Thailand, this ethnographic study examines Hmong cosmological beliefs...

來自生命的最終邀請，上一堂人生最重要的必修課。 ◆ 長春藤名校最受歡迎的三大公開課程之一，全球上億人次點閱！ ◆ 最犀利風趣的生死學！顛覆你對於生命與死亡的想像與理解。   長春藤名校有三大最受歡迎的公開課程：哈佛桑德爾的《正義》、班夏哈的《更快樂》，以及耶魯雪萊‧卡根的《令人著迷的生與死》。猶如老頑童的卡根教授，留著落腮鬍，穿著牛仔褲與帆布鞋，盤腿坐在講台上，幽默熱情且手舞足蹈的與學生探討死亡的本質，讓哲學課一點也不枯燥，大師風采令人著迷。 卡根教授挑戰一般人對於死亡的普遍觀點，例如真的有靈魂嗎？死後還能繼續存在？永生是好事？自殺是不道德的？我們應該對死亡感到恐懼嗎？ 他在書中援引古今哲學，並以日常生活事件為例，透過反覆辯證，以清晰的脈絡探討死亡的意義，進而帶領我們探索生命的價值，該以何種態度面對人生這趟旅程：思考死亡，才能了解生命的美好；當我們正視生與死的本質，才能擁有好好活著的勇氣，並且懷抱感激。   【名人推薦】 臺大哲學系教授苑舉正、精神科醫師王浩威 ...

La médecine d’urgence n’est pas un travail sans histoires, le docteur Alain Vadeboncoeur en sait quelque chose. Exerçant ce métier depuis près de 25 ans, il a été le témoin de fins violentes, il a vu des personnes revenir de la mort, il a sauvé des vies in extrémis, il a été confronté...

Blessed with uncommon wit and natural good looks, armed with degrees from Brown and Duke, and engaged to a wealthy investor, Maysie Campbell seemed to have everything going for her. However, her outwardly faultless appearance and professional success masked deep inner turmoil. Her death by suicide...

Taking as its starting point the significant role of the photograph in modern mourning practices—particularly those surrounding public figures—Dead Matter theorizes the connections between the body and the image by looking at the corpse as a special instance of a body that is simultaneously thing...