Death & Dying

An inspiring, accessible, and empowering grief book for widows on how to navigate the unique challenges of widow grief and create a hopeful future.When Kristin Meekhof lost her husband to cancer, she discovered what all widows learn: the moment you...

The idea of photographing the dead is as old as photography itself. For the most part, early death photographs were commissioned or taken by relatives of the deceased and preserved in the home as part of the family photograph collection. Once thought...

For two thousand years, cadavers - some willingly, some unwittingly - have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941529782Author Amy Wright GlennFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it was pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In the tradition of...

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan...

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work,The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955877131Author Sarah MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint CopticPublisher Coptic

A rare study that transforms our understanding of why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how to stop them Youth suicide clusters have deeply unsettled communities in recent years. While clusters have been widely documented in...

The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to...

Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.About the AuthorPhilippe Aries (1914-1984) was a French historian best known for his book Centuries of Childhood, the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455502752Author Christopher HitchensFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

What is artificial intelligence (AI)? How does AI affect death matters and the digital beyond? How are death and dying handled in our digital age?AI for Dying and Death covers a broad range of literature, research and challenges around this topic. It...

Ashes, Images, and Memories argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties in fifth-century Athens. In a period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943208104Author James R MartelFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Amherst CollegePublisher Amherst CollegeWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

In The Already Dead, Eric Cazdyn examines the ways that contemporary medicine, globalization, politics, and culture intersect to produce a condition and concept that he names "the new chronic." Cazdyn argues that just as contemporary medicine uses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113669Author Christine MontrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the living A common remedy after suffering the loss of a loved one is to progress through the "stages of grief," with "acceptance" as the final stage in the process. But is it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062499189Author Rebecca SofferFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

The Funerary International series comprises essential reference texts for policy-makers, practitioners and academics with an interest in funerary practices globally. Each book has a country or region specific focus, addressing a standard framework of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944466152Author Harold MytumFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Smithsonian Institution Scholarly PressPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

Each suicide is as unique as the individuals involved, especially if one examines the nature of the act and to what extent these acts can be viewed as a theatrical performance. Focusing on the dramatic aspects of suicide may seem tangential to the...

Facing death results in more fear and anxiety than any other human experience. Though much has been done to address the physical pain suffered by those with a terminal illness, Western medicine has been slow to understand and alleviate the psychological...

After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the identity of the individuals who were killed. They would attempt to identify...

No one who reads this book will ever again think of their own death in the same way. Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death. He examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as parting,...

From the moment when we first open our homes - and our hearts - to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to watch this beloved animal age and die. The pain of that eventual separation is the cruel corollary to the love we share with them, and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143035992Author Jim WootenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 161g

This is a defence of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death. By maintaining statutes that determine that voluntary death is not legal, Thomas Szasz believes that our society is forfeiting one of its basic freedoms and causing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537346Author Lyn H. LoflandFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539395Author Davide SistoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781743320235Author Jay JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Sydney University PressPublisher Sydney University PressWeight(grams) 415g

This fascinating work explores the meaning of death in the digital age, showing readers the new ways digital technology allows humans to approach, prepare for, and handle their ultimate destiny. With DeadSocial (TM) one can create messages to be...

Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are directly associated with the deceased's position in life, such as a pharaoh's mummification in Egypt or the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506487724Author Ana Claudia Quintana ArantesFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

*Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*A near-death experience (NDE) is a phenomenon whereby powerful physical and emotional sensations and visions are experienced by someone who is either close...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789591095Author John ParrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Sacristy PressPublisher Sacristy PressWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Aging/Death & Dying) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780982456705Author Irene KendigFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint...

An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality Immortality has long been considered the domain of religion. But immortality projects have gained increasing legitimacy and power in the world of science and technology. With recent rapid...

Through a detailed and fascinating exploration of changing medical knowledge and practice, this book provides a timeline of humankind's understanding of physiological death. Anchored in Early Modern Britain, it explains how evolving medical theories...