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"A beautiful and heartfelt novel about love and loss. This book breathes with life." - Jamieson Wolf, best-selling author of Little Yellow Magnet After spending eight months in the psych hospital fo……続きを見る

An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuries In My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Afr……続きを見る

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"Con notable precisión etnográfica y fidelidad a mandatos ancestrales, Amalia Vargas describe y analiza los rituales mortuorios andinos en el noroeste argentino que forman parte de su propia cultura……続きを見る

How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives. Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now leg……続きを見る

In this tender yet transparent guide to your final days, experienced hospice nurse Beth Cavenaugh reveals what options you may have as a patient living with a terminal disease. With personal stories……続きを見る

Funerary Practices in Serbia is the first book to offer a concise yet highly informative study of the historical development and current state of funerary practices in Serbia. Situated in a constant……続きを見る

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«La pietra fu usata prima per i sepolcri che per le abitazioni». Con arguzia epigrafica le parole di Miguel de Unamuno riaffermano una verità incisa su millenni di storia umana: la paradossale antec……続きを見る

Molte persone, anche colte e brillanti, dinanzi alla morte si comportano in maniera inspiegabilmente irrazionale, finendo per causare a sé e agli altri sofferenze inutili e ampiamente evitabili. Da ……続きを見る

«Via di qua; ecco la mia meta». Nell'annuncio del protagonista del racconto di Kafka La partenza risuona l'universale della condizione umana, quell'andar via a cui non occorre una destinazione, poic……続きを見る

Che cosa succede quando la medicina è messa in scacco da una malattia terminale o semplicemente dalla vecchiaia, vale a dire dal ciclo naturale della vita? Che rapporto si instaura tra medico e pazi……続きを見る

Nel 1921 gli ultracentenari in Italia erano 49, nel 2004 erano 7700. Non c'è dubbio che la vita si è allungata molto nell'ultimo secolo, ed è un bene. Paradossalmente non abbiamo un'idea chiara del ……続きを見る

Invecchiare è disdicevole, morire inaccettabile. La morte è diventata un pensiero da respingere, la medicina ha il dovere di annientarla. Come un nemico, quello più tremendo. Il senso di sconfitta v……続きを見る

Di fronte alla malattia più temuta, il punto di osservazione di Marina Sozzi che ha vissuto direttamente questa esperienza e, contro stereotipi consolidati, ne scrive da anni con competenza e sensib……続きを見る

Carole L. Sanek is a certified personal life coach who has also been a ghost writer for over 10 years for clients. She has blogged and written marketing pieces for social media for others and is an ……続きを見る

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While much has been written in recent years on death and dying, there has been little treatment of how people cope with death in the absence of religious belief, and virtually no examination of the ……続きを見る

Rahul Bedi has been a journalist for 38 years, beginning his career with the Indian Express in 1979. He was posted in London in the late 1980s after attending Oxford University as a Reuters Fellow. ……続きを見る

Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the world. Well beyond its health effects, the pandemic has wrought major changes in people’s everyday lives as they……続きを見る

A funeral celebrant from the Shetland Islands reveals how celebrating mortalityーand creating a personalized space for griefーenriches lives and gives meaning to death. Part self-help, part memoir, ……続きを見る

“One of our greatest thinkers” on death presents a radical new approach to thinking about dying and the human corpse (Caitlin Doughty, mortician and bestselling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes). A……続きを見る

How I Lost My Mother is a deeply felt account of the relationship between a mother and son, and an exploration of what care for the dying means in contemporary society The book is emotionally comple……続きを見る

A obra "E por falar em morte" de autoria de Marly Santos Mutschele e Marco Antônio Palermo Moretto traz à tona uma temática bastante delicada e pouco comum a ser discutida; a morte. De maneira "abra……続きを見る

A Kiwi journalist on the hunt for the truth about assisted dying and the End of Life Choice Act. Join her on a journey of discovery as she tells the stories of those with terminal illness and interv……続きを見る

This book offers a multifaceted exploration of death and the possibilities for an afterlife. By incorporating a variety of approaches to these subjects, it provides a unique framework for extending ……続きを見る

An eye-opening book about facing the loss of a loved one and finding comfort and healing. How do you face the loss of a loved one? How do you let go? Where can you find comfort and healing? This boo……続きを見る

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