Death Dying category: 510 books
Surviving the Death of a Sibling
Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
When T.J. Wray lost her 43-year-old brother, her grief was deep and enduring and, she soon discovered, not fully acknowledged. Despite the longevity of adult sibling relationships, surviving siblings are often made to feel as if their grief is somehow unwarranted. After all, when an adult sibling...
Mortal Remains
Death in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Mortal Remains introduces new methods of analyzing death and its crucial meanings over a 240-year period, from 1620 to 1860, untangling its influence on other forms of cultural expression, from religion and politics to race relations and the nature of war. In this volume historians and literary scholars...
Life After Death
A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
A magisterial work of social history, Life After Death illuminates the many different ways ancient civilizations grappled with the question of what exactly happens to us after we die.
In a masterful exploration of how Western civilizations have defined the afterlife, Alan F. Segal weaves together...
I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye
Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The grief books that just "gets it".
Each year about eight million Americans suffer the unexpected death of a loved one. For those who face the challenges of sudden death, the classic guide I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye offers a comforting hand to hold, written by two authors who...
Don't Let Death Ruin Your Life
A Practical Guide to Reclaiming Happiness after the Death of a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2002
In her unique guide, Jill Brooke reveals how to cope with grief and turn this time of sadness into an opportunity for positive change and growth.
Although they are no longer physically with us, we can keep our loved ones emotionally and spiritually close by incorporating their memories into...
Death on Demand
Jack Kevorkian and the Right-to-Die Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Death on Demand explores the polarizing role of Jack Kevorkian—“Dr. Death”—as the most visible leader of the right-to-die movement. From a feature on the cover of Time magazine to interviews on shows like 60 Minutes, Kevorkian was a high-profile figure in the right-to-die movement, capturing...
Glimpsing Heaven
The Stories and Science of Life After Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
If you caught a glimpse of heaven, would you choose to come back to life? Investigative journalist Judy Bachrach has collected accounts of those who died and then returned to life with lucid, vivid memories of what occurred while they were dead, and the conclusions are astonishing. Clinical death—the...
We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down
Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Rachael Hanel’s name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn’t at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family’s business. Her parents were forty-two years old and in good health when they...
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The renowned oral historian interviews ordinary people about facing mortality: “It’s the unguarded voices he presents that stay with you.” —The New York Times
In this book, the Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Studs Terkel, author of the New York Times bestseller...
by Peter Erceg
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The death of a loved one is a difficult and emotional time for everyone. For most of us, coping with death and planning a funeral is one of the most difficult things we will ever be asked to do. Yet, we are generally unaware of our funeral rights and don’t know how we can have genuine and meaningful...
On the Way to Death
Essays Toward a Comic Vision
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
On the Way to Death completes Eckardt's astonishing trilogy on the interrelationship of comedy, death, and God. It addresses itself to the question of death as the basic incongruity of life. Here is opened to human view the final divine comedy: a total reversal of the traditional roles assigned to...
by Shelly Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality. Do we have reason to believe in the...
Through the Dark Forest
Transforming Your Life in the Face of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
It's never too late to transform your life.
A practical and deeply healing guide to becoming whole and finding peace during the most difficult time of life
When we are confronted with the end of life, we must tackle medical decisions, attend to family and legal matters, and grapple with...
Death in Asia
from India to Mongolia
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Learning How to Die Can Teach Us How to Live
All of the world's religions refer to death in some way. Everyone is somewhat familiar with stories about where we go or what happens to us after death. From an early age, we have all heard stories of heaven or hell or some other version of paradise....