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Los niños experimentan desde temprana edad el miedo a morir, a veces se sienten trastornados cuando en lugar de alguien queda una ausencia o un vacío y, en algunos casos, hasta pueden llegar a recha……続きを見る

Academic studies on death and cemeteries are relatively recent in Portugal; those that do exist tend to adopt an essentially historical and artistic point of view. Studies on the practicalities of m……続きを見る

Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) is a widely available yet little known end-of-life choice utilized throughout human history by people suffering from terminal illness and existential ……続きを見る

Death and Religion in a Changing World is acomprehensive and accessible study of the intersection of death and religion, examining how everyday people enact religious responses to death in the twent……続きを見る

An intimate investigation of assisted dying in America and what it means to determine the end of our lives. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning cultural anthropologist Anita Hannig brings us ……続きを見る

A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twenty-first century, about one woman in twelve could ex……続きを見る

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology spans the gap between archaeology and biological anthropology, the field and laboratory, and between francophone and anglophone funerary archaeological a……続きを見る

This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focuses on Underworld to The Silence, along with his 1984 novel White Noise, in which the fear of death do……続きを見る

榮獲第一屆香港出版雙年獎「社會科學類」出版獎 殮房，也有「生機」？ 一直以來，香港人很忌諱死亡、避談死亡； 但今天，和死有關的訊息充斥面書和傳媒。 資深病理科醫生陳嘉薫，多年來在殮房接觸活人死人。 他道……続きを見る

Notre naissance n'est qu'un sommeil et un oubli : L'Âme qui monte avec nous, l'Étoile de notre vie, A eu ailleurs son cadre, Et vient de loin : Pas dans un oubli total. Et pas dans la nudité totale,……続きを見る

Yasmeen Fatimah gifts readers with a practical, yet spiritual and highly personal guidebook to navigating end of life, shedding light on what to expect as one faces old age or terminal illness. She ……続きを見る

¿Por qué una persona dedica su vida al estudio de la muerte y su sufrimiento? ¿Qué hay detrás de quien se propuso poner en pie una unidad de cuidados paliativos que es referente o un centro de escuc……続きを見る

The Irish do death differently. Funeral attendance is a solemn duty - but it can also be a big day out, requiring sophisticated crowd control, creative parking solutions and a high-end sound system.……続きを見る

From Dylan Thomas’s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath’s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton’s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats’ death warrant in a ……続きを見る

Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director……続きを見る

The facts of life and death remain the same. We live and die, we love and grieve, we breed and disappear. And between these existential gravities, we search for meaning, save our memories, leave a r……続きを見る

What is it like to have someone die in your arms? Can we return from the dead? And why has nobody heard of therapeutic hypothermia? Forced to come to terms with doctors pronouncing her husband ‘clin……続きを見る

'I have yet to come away from reading [Bering's] work and not feel considerably better informed than I was minutes before' (Forbes) __________________ This penetrating analysis aims to demystify a s……続きを見る

A unique, intimate and beautiful exploration of grief, loss, healing and faith 'This is a beautiful book, a remarkable, cadenced recollection of how grief lives in the body. It is poetry as a kind o……続きを見る

Every muscle in my body ached. I told myself to grieve, get it out of my system, so that I could be the mother my daughter needed me to be. The agony of knowing what was coming...endless. Just marri……続きを見る

What happens to us as we die? Discover the answers in this exclusive 25th anniversary edition of Sherwin B Nuland’s seminal book With a foreword by Paul Kalanithi, bestselling author of When Breath ……続きを見る

Raymond Moody is the 'grandfather' of contemporary investigation into the Near Death Experience and the After Death Experience. Life After Loss examines the latest findings and developments in both ……続きを見る

Watching her child die is the hardest thing a mother can ever do. But for Kay Gilderdale, saying a final goodbye to her only daughter Lynn was exceptionally painful: she'd played a part in her death……続きを見る

Few people have the opportunity to change the face of modern medicine. However, Raymond Moody achieved precisely this with the publication in 1975 of Life After Life, which introduced the phrase 'ne……続きを見る

· How many minutes can you survive after cardiac arrest? · What do new medical techniques teach us about consciousness? · How will these change our views of who we are? In 2012, two football stars c……続きを見る

'Utterly gripping' - The Guardian 'Fascinating' - The Sunday Times 'Moving' - Scotsman 'Engrossing' - Financial Times Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anth……続きを見る

‘This is a wonderful book: curious and insightful’ Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England We know what happens to the body when we die, but what happens to the soul? ……続きを見る

Many books have been written on the subject of death and dying over the last twenty-five years, yet none provides a comprehensive spiritual paradigm combined with practical guidance for resounding e……続きを見る

In his customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs contemplates old age and death... and doesn't like them much. 'A beloved genius of storytelling and illustration' Observer Il……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage se veut une contribution au débat sur la législation italienne relative à la fin de vie, compte tenu de la demande de légiférer qui a été faite à deux reprises par la Cour constitutionne……続きを見る