Death Dying category: 510 books
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
This is a Summary of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, where this bestselling author tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease...
Communicating at the End of Life
Finding Magic in the Mundane
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This enlightening volume provides first-hand perspectives and ethnographic research on communication at the end of life, a topic that has gone largely understudied in communication literature. Author Elissa Foster’s own experiences as a volunteer hospice caregiver form the basis of the book. Communicating...
Changing the Way We Die
Compassionate End of Life Care and The Hospice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care—nearly 44 percent of all deaths—and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one...
Letting Go
how to plan for a good death
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
‘Too frequently, we leave it too late to start to think — but a crisis is never the best time for careful thought.’
As Australia's population ages, many individuals are faced with making complex medical decisions, for themselves and for others, in times of great stress. How far should...
by Marc Crépon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the wars—or more precisely the memories of war—of the twentieth century, images of the deaths of countless faceless or nameless others eclipse the singularity of each victim’s death as well as the end of the world as such that each death signifies....
Death Watch
A View from the Tenth Decade
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Gerald Stern, National Book Award-winning poet, creates a powerful new prose book in his ninth decades, as he contemplates mortality. In his characteristic audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic style, Stern looks back at his life and forward to how he will end his days.
Will he...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This volume visits death in children’s literature from around the world, making a substantial contribution to the dialogue between the expanding fields of Childhood Studies, Children’s Literature, and Death Studies. Considering both textual and pictorial representations of death, contributors...
Bolsheviki
A Dead Serious Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Set in a hotel bar in Montreal on Remembrance Day, Bolsheviki has World War I veteran Harry Rosie” Rollins telling young reporter Jerry Nines about his experience in the trenches. Rollins recalls men pissing their pants, losing limbs, and planning a revolt against their officers. The character of...
Death
Philosophical Soundings
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
No one who reads this book will ever again think of his or her own death in the same way. The first part of the book consists of a thought-provoking essay, in which Fingarette examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as parting, death as sleep, immortality as the denial of death, and selflessness...
by Amy Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
What do all human beings have in common? Despite all the self-help books about sex, money, power, happiness, weight, and relationships, there is one thing we all face that none of that guidance can prevent . . . death.
What if we weren’t so afraid of death, or of even talking about it?
The...
by Ruth Penfold-Mounce
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Within popular culture, death is not the end, but instead a space where the dead can exert agency whilst entertaining the consumer. Popular culture enables the dead to be consumed by the living on a mass global scale, actively engaging them with issues of mortality.
This book develops the...
The Wounded Self
Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this writing seriously as literature, examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to write...
Confronting Death:
College Students on the Community of Mortals
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Death is a hard topic to talk about, but exploring it openly can lead to a new understanding about how to live. In this series of eighteen essays, college students examine death in new ways. Their essays provide remarkable ideas about how death can transform people and societies.
Alfred G....
Death Talk, Second Edition
The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life...