Death & Dying

Sociology of Death and the American Indian examines dying, death, disposal, and bereavement practices and applies those concepts to selectAmerican Indian tribes historically and currently, supplemented with oral histories. The focus is that learning...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

The inevitability of death-that of others and our own-is surely among our greatest anxieties. Mortality's Muse: The Fine Art of Dying explores how art, mainly literary art, addresses that troubling reality. While religion and philosophy offer important...

The inevitability of death-that of others and our own-is surely among our greatest anxieties. Mortality's Muse: The Fine Art of Dying explores how art, mainly literary art, addresses that troubling reality. While religion and philosophy offer important...

Although the mention of mummification immediately brings to mind the ancient Egyptians, the Roman Catholic Church has long used the practice to preserve notable members of its faith. In Italy alone, more than 300 preserved bodies appear on display in...

The issue of population ageing in East-Asia has been extensively studied but we remain in the dark as to the fate of the region's growing dead population, particularly in the largest metropolitan areas where there is bitter competition for space among...

Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning. With this in mind, Rite, Flesh, and Stone proposes cultural matters of death as its structuring principle,...

On August 9, 1965, 53 men died in the impoverished hills of rural Arkansas. Their final breaths came in a government facility deep underground while their loved ones were at home expecting their return. The incident at Launch Complex 373-4 remains the...

In Sociology of Death and the American Indian, Gerry R. Cox examines dying, death, disposal, and bereavement as well describes these practices in various American Indian tribes both historically and currently, supplemented with oral histories from select...

The issue of population ageing in East-Asia has been extensively studied but we remain in the dark as to the fate of the region's growing dead population, particularly in the largest metropolitan areas where there is bitter competition for space among...

Taking its title from Faulkner's epochal modernist novel, David Sherman's study traces the myriad ways death and its effect on the living defined modernist fiction and verse in England, Ireland, and the U.S. A focus on the disturbing but recurring image...

In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befriended an eighty-two-year-old man suffering from Parkinson's. The two remained close until the end of his life, sharing stories and memories while building a deep relationship. Part...

This book draws together a range of both classic and newly commissioned pieces on the multidisciplinary study of death and dying. Organized into five parts, the book begins with a general exploration of the meaning of death, before moving on to consider...

From dream research and global belief systems to extraordinary occurrences such as near-death and out-of-body experiences, this fascinating study delves into every aspect of death. Taking a scientific and anthropological approach, the reader is...

When, if ever, is life no longer worth living? When, if ever, is it right to withdraw life-support or hasten death? These questions-which confront physicians, bioethicists, social workers, the children of aging parents, and sooner or later almost...

Travel can take many forms with a vast array of destinations, but there's one trip everyone will eventually take. The Ultimate Journey offers a choice selection of true stories from major writers about the final adventure. Crossing all geographical and...

A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twenty-first century, about one woman in twelve could expect to die of a pregnancy or childbirth complication...

For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved...

The dispassionate intellectual examination of the concepts of death & dying contrasts dramatically with the emotive grieving process experienced by those who mourn. Death & dying are binary concepts in human cultures. Cultural differences reveal their...

Funerary practices have long been a classic topic of anthropological inquiry, which has tended to focus on death rituals as expressions and reinforcers of community ties and values. In this book, the author looks at funerals as an urban business, based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299330705Author Elizabeth WarnerFormat HardbackImprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898823018Author Nils-Johan JorgensenFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Renaissance BooksPublisher Global BooksWeight(grams) 300g

Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning. With this in mind, Rite, Flesh, and Stone proposes cultural matters of death as its structuring principle,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788499886671Author Joan HalifaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Editorial KairosPublisher Editorial KairosWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791470107Author Jeffrey BermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for IndieFab awards (Reference) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780942679342Author Joshua SlocumFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Upper Access Inc.,U.S.Publisher...

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...

Death is universal. It will meet us all. But it’s also a practical problem – what do we do with dead bodies? The Viestads live by a cemetery and are daily spectators of its routines, and their fascination with burials led them to dig deep to examine our...

'Poignant and often hilarious' Publishers WeeklyWhat if we responded to death... by throwing a party?By the time Erica Buist's father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She...

This anthology offers a unique collection of personal accounts of death, dying and bereavement. It examines representations of death, dying and bereavement in fiction, poetry, the media and the Internet, as well as exploring visual representations of...

There is nothing more life-affirming than understanding death in all its forms. Natural selection depends on death; little would evolve without it. Every animal on Earth is shaped by its presence and fashioned by its spectre. We are all survivors of...

'This book is a tribute to expert nursing. It should be seen as a celebration of all that is good in nursing. It also sets out the path for nursing that is centred on relationships - the essence of person-centred nursing is based on the quality of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997567472Author Adrian DannattFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Sequence PressPublisher Sequence Press

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...

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 9780262539395Author Davide SistoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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...

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

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)...