Sociology: death & dying books

For readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed founder of Death over Dinner offers a practical,...  Read More >>

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Mary Brown confronts the taboos surrounding death by talking to those who have lost loved ones and to those who...  Read More >>

How can we understand the relationship between death and heritage? Using three case studies, Death, Memorialization...  Read More >>

For fans of Stiff by Mary Roach and Jon Ronson, this illuminating journey written by an ordained minister seeks...  Read More >>

Loss is difficult . . . and inevitable. What do we do? What do we say? This book offers answers and approaches....  Read More >>

We live in a society that is bombarded by news of accidents, disasters and terrorist attacks. We are obsessed by...  Read More >>

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A short story miniseries on inner city youth introducing the struggles of African Americans with law enforcement...  Read More >>

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'Is that My Granny?' explores the phases in a grandmother's journey with Alzheimer's as observed through the eyes...  Read More >>

Rarely heard about in our society are caregivers' thoughts and feelings about life, death, and dying and how they...  Read More >>

Sages of various traditions and ages have reiterated that we must incorporate the inevitability of death into the...  Read More >>

Attempts to re-humanize the inevitable biological occurrence called dying. This book says that through the advancement...  Read More >>

Describes how to prepare for a smooth transition to end-of-life care and what to do to prevent family conflicts,...  Read More >>

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William Stainton Moses, an Anglican priest, authored Spirit Teachings in 1883, nine years before his passing. It...  Read More >>

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While much needs to be done in order to minimize the suicide attempts and suicides of adolescents, the work of Stop...  Read More >>

Mirrors of Passing explores the relationship between death, materiality, and temporality, drawing from the fields...  Read More >>

Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions...  Read More >>

Mirrors of Passing explores the relationship between death, materiality, and temporality, drawing from the fields...  Read More >>

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