Sociology: death & dying books

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Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me

Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks,...

Author: Edith Hall
ISBN: 9780300273533
Format: Hardback
$39.95

An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and...  Read More >>

You'll Leave This World With Your Butt Sewn Shut: And Other Little-Known Secrets, Shocking Facts, and Amusing Trivia about Death and Dying

You'll Leave This World With Your Butt Sewn Shut: And...

Author: Robyn Grimm
ISBN: 9781250323989
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A trivia book full of captivating facts you’ve been dying to know!  Read More >>

Life Before Death

Life Before Death

Author: Ann Cartwright ,  Lisbeth Hockey
ISBN: 9781032719771
Format: Hardback
$221.00

First published in 1973, this study describes the last 12 months in the lives of 785 adults. Based mainly on the...  Read More >>

You Only Die Once: How To Make It To The End With No Regrets

You Only Die Once: How To Make It To The End With No...

Author: Jodi Wellman
ISBN: 9781399817103
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by...

Author: Alua Arthur
ISBN: 9780063240032
Format: Hardback
$76.53

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The Stars Will Still Be There: What My Daughter Taught Me About Love, Life and Loss

The Stars Will Still Be There: What My Daughter Taught...

Author: Nicola Nuttall
ISBN: 9780008667979
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The inspiring, life-affirming memoir from Nicola Nuttall about her incredible daughter Laura  Read More >>

When Animals Die: Examining Justifications and Envisioning Justice

When Animals Die: Examining Justifications and Envisioning...

Author: Katja M. Guenther ,  Julian Paul Keenan
ISBN: 9781479818891
Format: Paperback
$75.99

"""Incorporating insights from leading experts across a range of disciplines, including the social sciences, the...  Read More >>

Sudden Deaths in St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded Age

Sudden Deaths in St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded...

Author: Sarah E. Lirley
ISBN: 9780809339327
Format: Paperback
$42.90

The scene of myriad grisly deaths, late nineteenth-century St. Louis was a hotbed for homicide, suicide, alcoholism,...  Read More >>

On Comics and Grief

On Comics and Grief

Author: Dale Jacobs
ISBN: 9781771126052
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the author’s grief...  Read More >>

Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community

Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow...

Author: Camille Barton
ISBN: 9781623179946
Format: Paperback
$39.99

"""An embodied guide to being with grief individually and in community-practical exercises, decolonized rituals,...  Read More >>

Reflections on War and Death

Reflections on War and Death

Author: Sigmund Freud ,  A A Brill
ISBN: 9782384553129
Format: Paperback
$21.09

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

Waiting for the Monsoon

Waiting for the Monsoon

Author: Rod Nordland
ISBN: 9780063096226
Format: Hardback
$73.89

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You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets

You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No...

Author: Jodi Wellman
ISBN: 9780316574273
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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How Midsummer Night: A Memoir of Friendship and Loss

How Midsummer Night: A Memoir of Friendship and Loss...

Author: Janet Somerville
ISBN: 9781504089357
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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Grief Hack: A Creative Process for Transforming Loss

Grief Hack: A Creative Process for Transforming Loss...

Author: Madonna Treadway
ISBN: 9781959793014
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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

Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City

Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Kit Ying Lye (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore) ,  Terence Heng (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9781032383958
Format: Paperback
$75.99

What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited...  Read More >>

Stay for the Cup of Coffee: How to Support Others in Grief

Stay for the Cup of Coffee: How to Support Others in...

Author: Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D., CT
ISBN: 9781617223334
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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

Imagining Heaven: Depictions of the Afterlife in World Art Across the Millennia

Imagining Heaven: Depictions of the Afterlife in World...

Author: Ellen W. Williams
ISBN: 9781476690452
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City

Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Kit Ying Lye (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore) ,  Terence Heng (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9781032383989
Format: Hardback
$273.00

What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited...  Read More >>

Filming Death: End-Of-Life Documentary Cinema

Filming Death: End-Of-Life Documentary Cinema

Author: Outi Hakola
ISBN: 9781399523264
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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Projections of Demand for Care among the Elderly in Poland

Projections of Demand for Care among the Elderly in...

Author: Ryszard Kokoszczyński ,  Wojciech Łątkowski
ISBN: 9783631894101
Format: Hardback
$119.03

This book presents a detailed projection model to estimate future demand for care among older people. Using Poland...  Read More >>

Inheritance and the Right to Bequeath: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

Inheritance and the Right to Bequeath: Legal and Philosophical...

Author: Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch ,  Daniel Halliday
ISBN: 9781032331577
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book addresses the nature, social function, ethics and politics of the right to bequeath.  Read More >>

Existentialism and the Desirability of Immortality

Existentialism and the Desirability of Immortality

Author: Adam Buben
ISBN: 9781032249926
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book looks to existential thinkers for reasons to hope immortal life could be worth living. It injects new...  Read More >>

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