Unfinished Conversations is a story of profound grief and the journey to healing that followed. Based on a journal Robert Lesoine kept during the two years following the suicide of his best friend, ……続きを見る
著者:Shelly Kagan
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2012年04月23日
There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myria……続きを見る
著者:Samuel D. Hunter
出版社: Theatre Communications Group
発売日: 2014年08月18日
Acclaimed for his gentle, complex characterizations, Samuel D. Hunter's bighearted and funny plays explore the quiet desperation running through many American lives. The Whale tells the story of a s……続きを見る
著者:Hayley Campbell
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2022年08月16日
A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the peopleーmorticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executionersーwho work in it and what led them there.
We are surrounded……続きを見る
著者:Ben Norman
出版社: Pen & Sword History
発売日: 2020年11月13日
A look at the constant confrontation with mortality the English experienced in a time of plague, smallpox, civil war, and other calamities.
In the lives of the rich and poor alike in seventeenth-cen……続きを見る
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commo……続きを見る
著者:Julia Samuel
出版社: Penguin Books Ltd
発売日: 2017年03月02日
A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller
Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood...
In Grief Works we hear stories from those who hav……続きを見る
We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors, and nurses they have known at best for a couple ……続きを見る
著者:Ellen de Visser
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2021年02月18日
THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN
For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn’t ……続きを見る
Algunos califican la novela "Los muertos mandan" como una obra de terror, e incluso se ha llegado a decir de ella que era una novela de zombis. Nada de esto es cierto. "Los muertos mandan", escrita ……続きを見る
THE TRUE CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR AND 18-WEEK SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
'One of the most fascinating books I have read in a long time. Engrossing, a haunting page-turner. A book I could not put d……続きを見る
'A thrilling new voice in Scottish fiction' Marion Todd
If the dead could speak, what secrets would they tell?
With her daughter on an archaeological dig, the only bodies DI Shona Oliver expects to ……続きを見る
著者:Caitlin Doughty
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2017年10月03日
**A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller
“Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” ーJill Lepore, ……続きを見る
著者:David Fajgenbaum
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2019年09月10日
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • DAVID FAJGENBAUM NAMED TO THE 2025 TIME100 NEXT LIST
“An extraordinary memoir that belongs with Atul Gawande’s writings and When Breath Becomes Air.”ーAdam Grant, New York Ti……続きを見る
著者:Thomas R. Wellock
出版社: University of California Press
発売日: 2021年03月23日
Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it. They confronted a deceptively simple question: When is a reactor “safe enough” to adequatel……続きを見る
Social media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 the figure was estimated at 30 million. What do we do with all these digital s……続きを見る
著者:Suleika Jaouad
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2021年02月09日
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” lifeーfrom the founder of The……続きを見る
A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho – a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and d……続きを見る
著者:Susan Smart
出版社: ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
発売日: 2012年03月26日
A Better Place describes the practices around death and burial in 19th-century Ontario. Funeral rituals, strong religious beliefs, and a firm conviction that death was a beginning not an end helped ……続きを見る
Francis Bacon had many accomplishments. He was a scientist, a philosopher, and a politician, and he was adept, too, at taking bribes; for this he had been imprisoned. It is, however, as a literary m……続きを見る
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE PERFECT READ FOR FANS OF UNNATURAL CAUSES
What happens to your body after you have died?
Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?
Life a……続きを見る
著者:Lene Auestad
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2018年05月02日
This book questions the junctions of the private and the public when it comes to trauma, loss, and the work of mourning - notions which, it is argued, challenge our very ideas of the individual and ……続きを見る
著者:Vinciane Despret
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2021年09月21日
An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the living
A common remedy after suffering the loss of a loved one is to progress through the “stages of grief,” with “accept……続きを見る
'This book gives insights into the pain and suffering involved when people are grieving for someone who has committed suicide, but it also offers hope without diminishing the significance of the suf……続きを見る
“Compassionate, poignant, and practical. . . . Transcending Loss will be a great blessing on your lifetime journey of recovery.”ーHarold Bloomfield, MD, psychiatrist and author of How to Survive the……続きを見る
"This is a very substantive book that encompasses the various aspects of advance care planning, both prior to and after a diagnosis of a life-limiting disease. The realistic case studies help reader……続きを見る
著者:Jack Riemer
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年11月28日
Forward by Sherwin B. Nuland
As Jack Riemer demonstrates in this collection of Jewish resources for mourning and healing, the Jewish tradition has much to offer those who seek its help in time of ne……続きを見る