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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

"A Christmas Sermon" is an essay written by Robert Louis Stevenson while he convalesced from a lung ailment at Lake Sarnac in the winter of 1887. In the short text he meditates on the questions of d……続きを見る

In "Voices from the Prairies: The Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Ranch Women", author Dorothy Louise Beasley brings to life the untold stories and indomitable spirits of the unsung heroines of Ca……続きを見る

The practice of medicine is immersed in issues of life, death, and suffering in relation to the mortal body. Because of this, the medical profession is a fertile arena for folklore that serves to ad……続きを見る

Since death is an experience which will inevitably be common to us all, we are often surprisingly uninterested in what services are provided for those people, often the elderly and infirm, who are a……続きを見る

Être Vivant, les deuils, les pertes et les RÉSISTANCES, ne touchent-ils pas tout le monde de près ou de loin ? COMMENT accompagner NOS AÎNÉS et toutes les GÉNÉRATIONS pour accueillir les souffrances……続きを見る

Digging into a forgotten past - and the dead left behind. San Francisco is famous for not having any cemeteries, but the claim isn't exactly what it seems. In the early 20th Century, the city reloca……続きを見る

Author Kathy Benjamin accompanies the pioneering women of the Lone Star State's funeral business. The intimate task of caring for the dead had long fallen under women's sphere of responsibilities. B……続きを見る

« Au-delà de la Mort : Vivre Une vie Pleine de Sens » est une œuvre profondément réfléchie et exhaustive qui plonge dans l'essence de l'un des sujets les plus universels et mystérieux de l'humanité ……続きを見る

"Más Allá de la Muerte: Vivir una Vida con Sentido" " es una obra profundamente reflexiva y abarcadora, que se adentra en la esencia de uno de los temas más universales y a la vez enigmáticos de la ……続きを見る

A transformative guide to embrace your own mortality and live a more fulfilling life Talking about death has been deemed morbid, taboo, or even pathological. But in order to fully embrace life, scie……続きを見る

Qu’est-ce qu’une bonne mort ? Qu’est-ce que bien mourir ? Comment accompagner les mourants? Ce sont là autant de questions auxquelles les sociétés humaines sont confrontées depuis la nuit des temps.……続きを見る

Living Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people experience loss over the life course, from childhood to old age. It examines the interventions most effect……続きを見る

Winner, 2024 Bela Kornitzer Alumni Award, Drew University Life and death are commonly seen as representing the starkest of binaries: Death is the ultimate adversary of all that lives. Beatrice Marov……続きを見る

First place winner, 2024 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in Palliative Care and Hospice Hospice and palliative care professionals are experts at caring for individuals and familie……続きを見る

THE BEAUTY AND RICHES OF REDEMPTION… In this book, the author expounds to us the hidden truth of Redemption. What is Redemption? What are these beauty and the riches of Redemption? You need this boo……続きを見る

Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning," this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offe……続きを見る

Die wunderbare Insel ist ein Ort voller Magie, unglaublicher Tiere und prachtvoller Pflanzen. Was es hier nicht gibt, ist der Tod. Und das machte sie für Eva Schörkhuber als Kind zu einer tröstliche……続きを見る

First place winner, 2024 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in Palliative Care and Hospice Hospice and palliative care professionals are experts at caring for individuals and familie……続きを見る

This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. In this book, Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theo……続きを見る

“A detailed, insightful, and at times moving ethnography of rituals around death and dying among ethnically Tibetan Hyolmo Buddhists in Nepal.” ーChoice If any anthropologist living today can illumi……続きを見る

This volume comprehensively explores the life trajectories of nine child/adolescent Holocaust concentration camp survivors as recollected when the subjects were elders. Based on extensive face to fa……続きを見る

This book presents a sensitive account of the challenges faced by adult children when making difficult decisions about care for and with their ageing parents in later life. It offers new insights in……続きを見る

A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death From blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left by those considering suicide, technology has become a medium for th……続きを見る

Taking a broad interpretation of “supernatural” to include anything beyond nature, Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural examines the liminality of often-overlooked types of supe……続きを見る

First published in 1993, The Media and Disasters looks behind the key scenes in the drama unfolding in the aftermath of the Pan Am 103 explosion: Lockerbie, visited by an estimated 1000 journalists ……続きを見る

Winner, 2024 Bela Kornitzer Alumni Award, Drew University Life and death are commonly seen as representing the starkest of binaries: Death is the ultimate adversary of all that lives. Beatrice Marov……続きを見る

An essential grief guide and recovery workbook for those who have said, "I thought I'd feel better by now." Grief does not follow a timeline or a set path. It is nonlinear and messy, doubling back o……続きを見る

This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on deat……続きを見る

Within most disciplines, there are those who are recognized by their colleagues as being exceptionally competent practitioners. These individuals do their work in such a remarkable way as to become ……続きを見る