Death & Dying

This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on death and funeral practices in Norway as of the 2020s. It will prove a valuable resource for scholars and reflective practitioners interested in death studies and the funeral industry,...

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This state-of-the-field book argues that palliative care has drifted away from its transformative goals—and shows what to do about it.

This state-of-the-field book argues that palliative care has drifted away from its transformative goals—and shows what to do about it.

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Popular media are powerful mirrors and makers of meaning around suicide. This book brings together scholars from across disciplines to examine how suicide is mythologized, politicized and challenged across film, TV, young adult literature, digital...

'Combining vivid storytelling with thoughtful reflections... A Second Act calls to something deep inside me, inside all of us, not to let the wonder of being alive pass us by' Dr Kathryn Mannix, author and palliative care doctor'Dramatic and...

Since death is an experience which will inevitably be common to us all, we are often surprisingly uninterested in what services are provided for those people, often the elderly and infirm, who are at risk or who are on the point of death. Originally...

Though Silent They Speak: Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards is a fascinating and informative guidebook to the most unusual graves and graveyards in Arkansas. Within the pages, readers explore showy marble monuments in city cemeteries and haunting,...

Though Silent They Speak: Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards is a fascinating and informative guidebook to the most unusual graves and graveyards in Arkansas. Within the pages, readers explore showy marble monuments in city cemeteries and haunting,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648414381Author Angjolie MeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing

Death is the great equalizer, but not all deaths are created equal. In recent years, there has been an increased interest and advocacy concerning end-of-life and after-death care. An increasing number of individuals and organizations from health care to...

Death is the great equalizer, but not all deaths are created equal. In recent years, there has been an increased interest and advocacy concerning end-of-life and after-death care. An increasing number of individuals and organizations from health care to...

How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives. Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now legally available to one in five Americans. This growing...

First published in 1993, The Media and Disasters looks behind the key scenes in the drama unfolding in the aftermath of the Pan Am 103 explosion: Lockerbie, visited by an estimated 1000 journalists in the month following the disaster; New York's Kennedy...

This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on the landscape and features of Aotearoa New Zealand that underpin its familiar, though country specific, ways of caring for the dead. It provides an account of diverse funerary practices that...

Why the death penalty is in decline across the United States Across the country, the death penalty is dying. Twenty-two states have abandoned state-sanctioned executions, including nine in the last fifteen years. Of the twenty-eight states that still...

Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement. However, there has been little holistic or multidisciplinary research in this area, with studies typically focusing on individual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049429Author Michael ErardFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Why the death penalty is in decline across the United States Across the country, the death penalty is dying. Twenty-two states have abandoned state-sanctioned executions, including nine in the last fifteen years. Of the twenty-eight states that still...

How can science help us live better and longer? A groundbreaking exploration of longevity from Nobel Prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024,A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER READ'Enthralling and...

Academic studies on death and cemeteries are relatively recent in Portugal; those that do exist tend to adopt an essentially historical and artistic point of view. Studies on the practicalities of managing the dead and their spaces are even more recent,...

If death is the cessation of life, then, as a concept, it draws its meaning from the preceding life. While death and dying are inextricably connected, dying is still a part of life—unlike death. The Meaning of Death: A Philosophical Investigation...

From the author of Work Won't Love You Back, a stirring examination of how collective grief can ignite powerful change.Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, yet we barely have time to acknowledge it. The losses range from the personal grief...