Sociology: death & dying books

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A Dignified Ending: Taking Control Over How We Die

A Dignified Ending: Taking Control Over How We Die

Author: Lewis M. Cohen, MD
ISBN: 9781538115749
Format: Hardback
$60.00

A Dignified Ending challenges the idea that prolonging life by every means possible is the only reasonable response...  Read More >>

Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures

Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western...

Author: Helaine Selin ,  Robert M. Rakoff
ISBN: 9783030188252
Format: Hardback
$475.17

Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and...  Read More >>

Suicide Stop It Now!: Got To Keep It Going

Suicide Stop It Now!: Got To Keep It Going

Author: Johnnie Herman Williams, Jr
ISBN: 9780578555508
Format: Paperback
$51.96

I am a Vietnam combat Veteran, on the battle fields with the 199th Light INF 4/12. (TET 1968 ). From that day and...  Read More >>

Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families

Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families...

Author: Glenda Fredman ,  Tom Andersen
ISBN: 9780367324056
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Death Talk is about the healing power of conversation. It gives numerous examples of children and their families...  Read More >>

The Desk on the Sea

The Desk on the Sea

Author: Jonathan Johnson
ISBN: 9780814346655
Format: Paperback
$47.30

This memoir begins four years after poet Jonathan Johnson spread his mother's ashes in Lake Superior and moved with...  Read More >>

Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials: Tattoos, Taxidermy, and Trinkets

Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials: Tattoos,...

Author: Racheal Harris (Deakin University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781787564220
Format: Paperback
$114.95

This book looks at changes to the ways Western culture memorialises the dead. Specifically, it considers the changing...  Read More >>

The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia

The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in...

Author: Anya Bernstein
ISBN: 9780691182612
Format: Paperback
$42.99

A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death,...  Read More >>

The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia

The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in...

Author: Anya Bernstein
ISBN: 9780691182605
Format: Hardback
$135.00

A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death,...  Read More >>

Healing Depression by Degrees of Fitness: the Brain Health Guidebook

Healing Depression by Degrees of Fitness: the Brain...

Author: Cristy S Phillips Edd ,  Robert Stanley Brown Sr
ISBN: 9781079129069
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Developed on actual case histories of depressed people treated by a psychiatrist who advocates fitness, Healing...  Read More >>

Keep Calm and Let the Mortician Handle It: Blank Lined Mortician Journal Notebook Diary as a Perfect Birthday, Appreciation day, Business, Thanksgiving, or Christmas Gift for friends, coworkers and family.

Keep Calm and Let the Mortician Handle It: Blank Lined...

Author: Real Joy Publications
ISBN: 9781081703912
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Looking for a Perfect Gift or a Journal under $10 Grab this Blank Lined professional jobs, hobby, passion or part...  Read More >>

Bright Stain

Bright Stain

Author: Francesca Bell
ISBN: 9781597098618
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Unapologetically sensual and forthright, Bright Stain explores desire, loss, faith, doubt, tenderness, and violence;...  Read More >>

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018

Author: Harris M. Lentz, III
ISBN: 9781476670331
Format: Paperback
$131.87

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She Overcame Suicide: Inspiring Stories of Serving in Ministry While Struggling with Suicide

She Overcame Suicide: Inspiring Stories of Serving in...

Author: Lenai Clegg ,  Jesta Bouie
ISBN: 9780578221700
Format: Paperback
$18.00

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Transkulturelle Pflege Am Lebensende: Umgang Mit Sterbenden Und Verstorbenen Unterschiedlicher Religionen Und Kulturen

Transkulturelle Pflege Am Lebensende: Umgang Mit Sterbenden...

Author: Elke Urban
ISBN: 9783170359369
Format: Paperback
$102.96

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From Broken Glass: Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation

From Broken Glass: Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps...

Author: Brian Wallace ,  Glenn Frank
ISBN: 9780316513098
Format: Paperback
$29.99

From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a ""devastating...inspirational""...  Read More >>

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

Author: Mollie Bach
ISBN: 9781951020866
Format: Paperback
$33.50

'This book is set in London and Southern France at the end of the 20th century. There are two central characters,...  Read More >>

Why Be A Princess When You Can Be A Funeral Director: Blank Lined Diary

Why Be A Princess When You Can Be A Funeral Director:...

Author: Graveyard Gossip
ISBN: 9781079344288
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Cool gift idea for a woman Funeral Director, Mortician or Mortuary Science College student. Each lined page has...  Read More >>

Why Be A Princess When You Can Be An Embalmer: Blank Lined Diary

Why Be A Princess When You Can Be An Embalmer: Blank...

Author: Graveyard Gossip
ISBN: 9781079349566
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Cool gift idea for a woman Embalmer, Mortician or Mortuary Science College student. Each lined page has a date line...  Read More >>

The Human Remains

The Human Remains

Author: Tim Heerdink
ISBN: 9781937668716
Format: Paperback
$39.47

The Human Remains collects the dead in elegies of sorrow and fond remembrance. A life which is plagued with infection...  Read More >>

The Burning: Parenting my son through Adoption, FASD, and suicide

The Burning: Parenting my son through Adoption, FASD,...

Author: Ruth Spencer ,  Sara Graefe
ISBN: 9780994889225
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Following the suicide of their adopted son, the author and her husband are told that his biological family--believing...  Read More >>

Letting Go: How to Plan for a Good Death

Letting Go: How to Plan for a Good Death

Author: Charlie Corke (Director of Intensive Care Intensive Care Unit the Geelong Hospital Victoria Australia)
ISBN: 9781947534438
Format: Paperback
$47.39

An important and timely introduction to, and discussion of, the kinds of decisions that individuals, families, and...  Read More >>

Values at the End of Life: The Logic of Palliative Care

Values at the End of Life: The Logic of Palliative Care...

Author: Roi Livne
ISBN: 9780674545175
Format: Hardback
$86.95

Once defiant of death—or even in denial—many American families and health care professionals are embracing the notion...  Read More >>

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