Sociology: death & dying books

In At the Hour of Death, veteran psychical researchers Karlis Osis, Ph.D and Erlendur Haraldsson, Ph.D collated...  Read More >>

This book charts the transformation of Australian ways of mourning over the last forty years through a study of...  Read More >>

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From the 1990s the British developed an interest in natural burial, also known as woodland, green, or eco-logical...  Read More >>

Drawing on the moving story of the last year of the life of her own treasured dog, Ody, the author presents an in-depth...  Read More >>

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This book explores one woman's journey to making peace with death's inevitability. Death, the ultimate transformative...  Read More >>

Corporate coach Allison Clarke was on a plane to Atlanta when she realized that in order to fully live, she had...  Read More >>

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Beginning with an examination of humility in its general notion and as a religious virtue that detachment presupposes,...  Read More >>

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What is life REALLY like on the Other Side? What could possibly be waiting for us when our time on earth is over?...  Read More >>

Clarisse N. Renard was asked to move in and be the caregiver to a man who had just been diagnosed with bone cancer...by...  Read More >>

Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers --Provided...  Read More >>

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What obituaries tell us about our culture, past and present <p> Within the short period of a year she was a bride,...  Read More >>

Written for those times in grief when the strength to do the hard and necessary work of mourning is waning, this...  Read More >>

"For many immigrants to Baton Rouge, being buried in the highlands of their European homes was a dream. Recognizing...  Read More >>

While on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, in 2010, Hitchens discovered he had esophageal cancer....  Read More >>

Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of the world's most celebrated writers....  Read More >>

Study of late Anglo-Saxon texts and grave monuments illuminates contemporary attitudes towards dying and the dead....  Read More >>

In this dramatic monologue done in several voices, anti-war playwright David Fennario debunks sentimental notions...  Read More >>

Randi Jensen has brought us a fascinating and illustrative view of suicide from the inside. After 24 years struggling...  Read More >>