Sociology: death & dying books

What will your legacy will be? What stories of your life do you want to pass on to the next generation? Have you...  Read More >>

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I found this book to be a well-written, sensitively presented, and important resource for those engaged in this...  Read More >>

Living with the Dead presents a detailed analysis of ancestor worship in Egypt, using a diverse range of material,...  Read More >>

In this new volume, death is treated both as a threat to meaning and as an opportunity to create meaning.  Read More >>

Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that...  Read More >>

Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, Aikman...  Read More >>

Cremation, as a means of managing the post-mortem body, was reintroduced to Europe at the end of the eighteenth...  Read More >>

As the first historical study of East Germany's sepulchral culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses...  Read More >>

An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture...  Read More >>

In Couched in Death, Elizabeth P. Baughan offers the first comprehensive look at the earliest funeral couches...  Read More >>

This remarkable book--the fruit of almost two decades of study--traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western...  Read More >>

Many thousands of people kill themselves every year, and many more are left behind to grieve. This book recounts...  Read More >>

If we legalize physician-assisted suicide, will people be forced into it? Did allowing abortion make it compulsory...  Read More >>

Die meisten Menschen in Deutschland sterben in Institutionen wie KrankenhAusern oder Pflegeheimen, wo die Personalsituation...  Read More >>

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The inevitability of death--that of others and our own--is surely among our greatest anxieties. Mortality's Muse:...  Read More >>

Death is the one certainty in life, yet, with the decline of religion in the West, we have become collectively reluctant...  Read More >>

What does dying with dignity mean in a diverse society with rapidly advancing technology, an aging population, and...  Read More >>

The latest works by one of the world's foremost playwrights.  Read More >>

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The Book of Donors for Strasbourg cathedral is an extraordinary medieval document dating from ca. 1320-1520, with...  Read More >>

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This book, based on extensive original research, explores the various ways in which Japanese people think about...  Read More >>