Death category: 2756 books
Grave Matters
A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
By the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came calling.
Grave Matters follows families who found in "green" burial a more natural, more economic,...
by Caitlin Doughty
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller
“Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker**
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin...
Dead People Suck
A Guide for Survivors of the Newly Departed
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An honest, irreverent, laugh-out-loud guide to coping with death and dying from Emmy-nominated writer and New York Times bestselling co-author of Sh*tty Mom Laurie Kilmartin.
Death is not for the faint of heart, and sometimes the best way to cope is through humor. No one knows this better than...
My Deepest Sympathies...
Meaningful Sentiments for Condolence Notes and Conversations, Plus a Guide to Eulogies
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Never are we more concerned with getting it right than when writing to one who has suffered a loss. In My Deepest Sympathies--, letter-writing guru Florence Isaacs guides us through the ins and outs of offering comfort and support with short yet meaningful notes that will long be remembered by their...
by Sapiens Editorial
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK One of the most difficult issues to address is death. The mere idea of dying causes different reactions in people, that can basically be categorized in two ways: those who see it as being reborn into a better life, and those who are terrified by the inevitability of the fact...
Funeral Rights
What the Australian 'death-care' industry doesn't want you to know
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
How can a funeral director charge $700 for a chipboard coffin worth only $80?Why are there moves afoot to re-use graves in cemeteries?Can we choose to be buried in a cardboard coffin?Australia's 'death-care' industry is worth a staggering $700 million a year, and despite the fact that each of us will...
Where There's a Will
A Practical Guide to Taking Charge of Your Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
"Kerrigan's tone is carefully balanced and the writing is compelling he urges us to seize the day before it seizes us" (Sarah Stone, Dying Matters Coalition). Death is inevitable, yet most of us avoid thinking about it at all costs. But is ignorance really bliss? Perhaps if we prepare ourselves thoughtfully...
Gone but Not Lost
Grieving the Death of a Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
We all expect our parents to precede us in death. No one expects to have to make their child's funeral arrangements. And the loss of a child brings with it a special and persistent manifestation of grief that can feel "like a stomachache that never ends."
Gone but Not Lost is a thoughtful...
Death... And How To Survive It
A unique, practical and uplifting guide to coming to terms with the loss of your partner
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
'He passed away', 'She's gone', 'He died'...
As anyone who has ever lost a loved one will know, the wording doesn't affect the meaning. Nothing can shield you or prepare you for the brutal reality and crippling pain of a death and its repercussions.
Kate Boydell was widowed at the age...
by Neil R. Storey
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
A repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange, and entertaining facts and trivia about the one certainty in all our lives—deathWithin this volume are some horrible, unfortunate, and downright ludicrous ends. Readers will find out what body parts of the departed great and famous are...
The Letter
My Journey Through Love, Loss, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In 2003, Pat Tillman, serving in the US Army, hastily wrote a "just in case" letter to his wife, Marie. When he returned on leave before his departure to Afghanistan, he placed the letter on top of their bedroom dresser. For months it sat there, sealed and ever-present, like a black hole...
A Journal for Jordan
A Story of Love and Honor
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. Charles King, forty-eight, was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an...
Another Day in the Death of America
A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A timely chronicle of what is now an ordinary day in America, where gun violence regularly takes the lives of children and teens, and leaves shattered families in its wake.
Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize
Shortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation Award
Finalist...
by Cory Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
**"Bracing and beautiful . . . Every human should read it." —The New York Times
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and 2017 Critics' Pick
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2017**
At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer....