Death Dying category: 510 books
The Heart of Grief
Death and the Search for Lasting Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000
"What's gone and what's past help," Shakespeare wrote, "should be past grief." But Thomas Attig argues that Shakespeare is wrong--that a grieving survivor need never let go. In The Heart of Grief, Attig gives us an inspiring and profoundly insightful meditation on the meaning of grief, showing how...
Bendita pena
Sanar a través del dolor y la pérdida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Una guía compasiva sobre la experiencia de pérdida como proceso esencial de crecimiento
• Examina el fenómeno de la pérdida como un hondo misterio que compartimos todos los seres humanos
• Ofrece consejos sensatos y prácticos sobre la experiencia del duelo y cómo prepararse...
Das letzte Hemd hat viele Farben
Für einen lebendigen Umgang mit dem Sterben
Language: German
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Wir leben in einer Kultur, in der Trauer keinen Platz hat. Dabei kann der unterdrückte Schmerz schlimmen Folge für die körperliche und seelische Gesundheit der Hinterbliebenen haben. Dieses Buch erzählt von Menschen, die sich sehr bewusst von ihren Toten verabschiedet und dabei ganz persönliche...
by Anne van der Meiden
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 3, 2012
We kunnen er niet om heen: in alles wat met sterven, begraven en rouwverwerking te maken heeft, zijn in betrekkelijk korte tijd opvallende en veelsoortige veranderingen opgetreden. Mensen praten opener over de dood, ze verwerken hun verdriet in nieuwe rituelen en staan zichzelf toe na te denken over...
The Removers
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
“A darkly funny memoir about family reckonings” (O, The Oprah Magazine)—the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living.
Andrew Meredith’s father, a literature professor at La Salle University, was fired after unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct....
Furnishing Eternity
A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
“A lifetime’s worth of workbench philosophy in a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son” (Kirkus Reviews)—the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose confronts mortality, survives loss, and finds resilience through an unusual woodworking project—constructing,...
The Frighteners
A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The Frighteners is a bizarrely compelling, laugh-out-loud exploration of societies’ fascination with the dark, spooky, and downright terrifying side of life. The author--self proclaimed “sinister minister”--opens the book by reflecting on how he went from a horror-obsessed atheist to a God-fearing...
Remember Me When I'm Gone
The Rich and Famous Write Their Own Epitaphs and Obituaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004
“Show me Heaven! I have seen hell.” —Patricia Neal
Larry King, world-famous radio and television personality, has asked the talented, the beautiful, the wise, and the rich a question all of us have pondered: How would you like to be remembered after your death? The result is REMEMBER...
Cemetery Stories
Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Never look at a grave the same way again
Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them?
Enter the world of the dead as Katherine Ramsland talks to...
Mass Killers
Compelled to Destroy
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Mass Killers investigates those addicted to death. Many killers have become dangerously hooked on the thrill of the kill, driving them to commit even more extreme acts of violence in pursuit of their drug of choice - the suffering of others. This fascinating book is not for the faint hearted. It contains...
Morbid Curiosity
The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
"It's shocking and sinful, and I couldn't put it down!" -Joan Rivers
The strange, startling, and utterly fascinating stories behind the world's most notorious celebrity deaths.
Was Jayne Mansfield really decapitated? Which manly appendage of Napoleon's was cut off during his...
Borrowed Time
An AIDS Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
“An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss” from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man (Publishers Weekly).
In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of...
by Peter Handke
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide."
So begins Peter Handke's...
by Barbara Kraft
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
It could be argued that it was mere chance that drew Barbara Kraft, a young aspiring writer, into friendship with each party of one of literature’s most famous love affairs: Anaïs Nin, and then Henry Miller; yet, upon reflection, it seems it was meant to be.
In 1974 Kraft signed up for a writing...