Sociology: death & dying books

Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, institutionally neglected cemeteries....  Read More >>

Examines the narratives documentary films construct and mediate about death and dying  Read More >>

"Celebrated radio announcer and 15-year funeral home veteran A.L....  Read More >>

Kenny supplied Hamilton with a modified shotgun, a .32 caliber revolver, and ammunition. Hamilton and his girlfriend...  Read More >>

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Through a multidisciplinary approach, Limits of Life explores how the limitations and perceived finality of life...  Read More >>

Rest in Plastic gives an insight into local entanglements of death, synthetic materials and power in Ewe community....  Read More >>

Our love of life is designed into us. We naturally understand death as the opposite of life, but we are taught to...  Read More >>

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death--and what might...  Read More >>

As a society we aren’t good at talking about death, and as individuals we may try and avoid thinking about it. But...  Read More >>

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In this essay, written about six months after the outbreak of the First World War, Freud expresses his disillusionment...  Read More >>

Esta é a história de Rafael, um adolescente lidando com o abandono, as mudanças, a sexualidade, o preconceito e...  Read More >>

Explores the extraordinary states of expanded consciousness that arise during comas, both positive and negative...  Read More >>

Addressing a gap in social science research to explore the meanings, understandings, and experiences of time at...  Read More >>

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling...  Read More >>

The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances--sudden or expected, still in office or decades...  Read More >>

The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances--sudden or expected, still in office or decades...  Read More >>

Suffering the loss of a loved one is extremely painful. When someone close to you passes, anticipated or not, you...  Read More >>

A kick-in-the-pants wake-up call to start living meaningfully in light of how many Mondays you have left from longtime...  Read More >>

Grief Hack, A Creative Process for Transforming Loss, is a creative process that transforms grief and loss into...  Read More >>

When someone we care about experiences a major life loss, for many of us it' s instinctive to want to...  Read More >>

The author chronicles the final months of the life of her close friend and fellow teacher, in this unique and unforgettable...  Read More >>

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