Sociology: death & dying books

As the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare...  Read More >>

In the darkest days of Germany, the young theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested and then executed by hanging...  Read More >>

From the author of the megaselling phenomenon QUIET, the no. 1 NYT bestseller on how to turn sorrow into beauty...  Read More >>

This book on end of life examines how to include people with intellectual and developmental disability in the inevitability...  Read More >>

Music gives specific meanings to our lives, but also to how we experience death; it forms a central part of death...  Read More >>

How do we align our end-of-life choices with our values? In a world experiencing a climate crisis and a culture...  Read More >>

How do we align our end-of-life choices with our values? In a world experiencing a climate crisis and a culture...  Read More >>

This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities...  Read More >>

A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution...  Read More >>

This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities...  Read More >>

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""Understanding Suicide: Prevention, Awareness, and Moving Forward"" is a comprehensive and insightful book that...  Read More >>

"It's important to understand that depression is a serious mental health issue that can affect anyone. While poetry...  Read More >>

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Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this...  Read More >>

This comprehensive, encyclopedic review compiles and curates the latest scholarship, research, and debates on the...  Read More >>

This book provides detailed analysis of the manifold ways in which COVID-19 has influenced death, dying and bereavement....  Read More >>

How do we align our end-of-life choices with our values? In a world experiencing a climate crisis and a culture...  Read More >>

"This is a compassionate and comprehensive resource for caregivers, friends, and loved ones who want to help someone...  Read More >>

Dying Green considers the environmental costs of common healthcare practices, raising an urgent question: in striving...  Read More >>

Dying Green considers the environmental costs of common healthcare practices, raising an urgent question: in striving...  Read More >>

If you are preparing for the end of life--or simply looking to bring more meaning to the here and now--The Death...  Read More >>

If you are preparing for the end of life--or simply looking to bring more meaning to the here and now--The Death...  Read More >>