Death category: 2756 books
Modern Death
How Medicine Changed the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today’s modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about...
Writers on... Death
(A Book of Quotations, Poems and Literary Reflections)
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Writers On... Death' illustrates the ability of this most universal (and least understood) subject to produce some of literature's most moving and profound work. It encompasses inspirational poems about death, quotes about death, extracts from private diaries and classic literary scenes, and contains...
by Philippe Aries
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
This remarkable book—the fruit of almost two decades of study—traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary...
Sacred Passage
How to Provide Fearless, Compassionate Care for the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Working as an emergency room nurse, Margaret Coberly came in contact with death on a daily basis. However, it wasn't until her own brother was diagnosed with terminal cancer that she realized she understood very little about the emotional and spiritual aspects of caring for the terminally ill. To...
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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...
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...
A Mortician's Point of View
On Conscious Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Death. When people hear about death, they cringe. However, the fact of the matter is that death is just part of life. There is nothing to be feared and A Mortician's Point of View- On Conscious Death and Dying will help people realize that death is not scary like society has made it out to be for a very...
Mrs. Hunter's Happy Death
Lessons on Living from People Preparing to Die
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What is the secret of people who die contented and fulfilled? What makes it possible for them to attain such spiritual heights as they approach their physical demise? What enables them to make death a completion of life, rather than a tragic end? And what can they teach us about life and death, love...
Death on Earth
Adventures in Evolution and Mortality
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
There is nothing more life-affirming than understanding death in all its forms.
Natural selection depends on death; little would evolve without it. Every animal on Earth is shaped by its presence and fashioned by its spectre. We are all survivors of starvation, drought, volcanic eruptions,...
Preparing to Die
Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
We all face death, but how many of us are actually ready for it? Whether our own death or that of a loved one comes first, how prepared are we, spiritually or practically? In Preparing to Die, Andrew Holecek presents a wide array of resources to help the reader address this unfinished business.
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A Trek in the Desert
Finding a Path Through Grief
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2000
A Trek In the Desert: Finding a Path Through Grief is a book about the universal experience of grief, and the road to grief recovery. In her burning need to find relief and regain a feeling of sanity following the death of her son by suicide, the death of her husband from cancer and the death of an...
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....
The Pain from the Death of a Spouse
A Diary of Life, Love, Death, and Sorrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Once you turn the page of life, you cannot turn it back. The Pain from the Death of a Spouse revisits life with the living and documents the death, pain, and sorrow that will eventually come to every marriage.
This book introduces a door that every married couple will walk through, usually...
The Whole Death Catalog
A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
In the tradition of Mary Roach’s bestselling Stiff and Jessica Mitford’s classic exposé The American Way of Death comes this meticulously researched, refreshingly irreverent, and lavishly illustrated look at death from acclaimed author Harold Schechter. With his trademark fearlessness and bracing...