Death category: 2756 books
Never the Same
Coming to Terms with the Death of a Parent
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Children and teens who experience the death of a parent are never the same. Only in the last decade have counselors acknowledged that children grieve too, and that unresolved issues can negatively impact children into adulthood. Unaddressed grief can lead to depression, substance abuse, and relationship...
Most Deserving of Death?
An Analysis of the Supreme Court's Death Penalty Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The role of capital punishment in America has been criticised by those for and against the death penalty, by the judiciary, academics, the media and by prison personnel. This book demonstrates that it is the inconsistent and often incoherent jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court which accounts...
Death of a Spouse
A Memoir of Loving Through Lung Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Death of a Spouse
Carolyn Wright was born in the beautiful state of Georgia. She is a native of Valdosta. Her family relocated to the city of Jacksonville, Florida when she was 13 years old. She met her husband, Otis Wright, at New Stanton Senior High School in the year of 1958. They were...
Grief Diaries
Hello From Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Fascinating true stories about after-death communication and the power of love.
Grief Diaries creator Lynda Cheldelin Fell dreamed of her daughter’s death two years before it happened. When the nightmare came true in 2009, she watched her deceased grandmother guide her daughter safely to...
by N. Newell Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2005
Lois Green was a beautiful, vivacious, dark-eyed woman whose life and words teach how to live with dying. "Death is hidden," she often said, "and we hurt because of it. My purpose is to bring death out into the open and share things that have been beneficial to me." To her death...
Perfect Endings
A Conscious Approach to Dying and Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Written with lucidity and compassionate understanding, Perfect Endings shows how the death experience is an expansion into a wider dimension of our core being. As we move through our dying process, all the strength and wisdom we have gained in a lifetime is called forth. This is a time of quickening...
Death
Reflections of a Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Its both moving and wonderful. I enjoy it too much to put it down for long. I read through the entire work spellbound, reflecting on how rare it is to encounter reading material that both entertains and instructs. Despite its title, the book is more about life than about death. For sure, the book...
A Parent's Death
A Biblical and Spiritual Companion
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In A Parent’s Death, renowned biblical studies teacher Margaret Nutting Ralph reflects on the passing of each of her parents and the biblical and spiritual lessons she learned through these difficult times. The book grows out of her personal experiences, but goes beyond them to explore the meaning...
by Molly Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
From Molly Potter, best-selling author of How Are You Feeling Today? and What's Worrying You?,comes a picture book for starting conversations with children about death, bereavement and what happens next.
When someone dies, we can feel a whole host of different emotions and explaining them to...
Death, Deeds, and Descendents
Inheritance in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal instruments...
Widow's Walk
Wandering in the Wilderness of Grief
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
“Your husband has to be rushed to OR. He needs to have a chest tube put in to drain pleural fluid. Every one we’ve seen like this is malignant. Don’t you have family in New Jersey? We think you’d better go back there.”
Thus begins the first step of the wanderings—from diagnosis,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes provides: an in-depth examination of death attitudes, existentialism, and spirituality and their relationships; a review of the major theoretical models; clinical applications of these models to issues such as infertility, bereavement, anxiety, and suicide; and an introduction to meaning managemen
Dying to Eat
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into...
Corpse Encounters
An Aesthetics of Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book sustains a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation and display, and ecological...