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Featuring over 1,200 topical entries arranged alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides diverse and detailed coverage of the related subjects of reincarnation and karma. Its in-depth examination ra……続きを見る

The Funerary International series comprises essential reference texts for policy-makers, practitioners and academics with an interest in funerary practices globally. Each book has a country or regio……続きを見る

The story of poison is the story of power... For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid p……続きを見る

Radiation Diaries tells of a month of radiotherapy treatment undergone when Janet Todd was president of a Cambridge college and while her father, in his 100th year, was approaching death, with skin ……続きを見る

NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS" From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price. Shock……続きを見る

A terrible car accident has occurred and now a good man, a devoted husband and father, lies dying in a hospital bed with his wife at his side. In the last moments of his life, time seems suspended. ……続きを見る

The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of viole……続きを見る

In this introductory text on thanatology, Alan Kemp continues to take on the central question of mortality: the centrality of death coupled with the denial of death in the human experience. Drawing ……続きを見る

L’eutanasia (cosiddetta “buona morte”) è il procurare intenzionalmente la morte di qualcuno la cui qualità della vita sia permanentemente compromessa da una malattia, da una menomazione o una condiz……続きを見る

La morte è un evento misterioso ed ineluttabile, parte integrante della nostra vita. Vivere pienamente la dimensione del morire è il tentativo di guardare alla morte con altro sguardo. Il percorso e……続きを見る

Christians have often admired and venerated the martyrs who died for their faith, but for a long time thought that the bodies of martyrs should remain undisturbed in their graves. Initially, the Chr……続きを見る

Condemned to Die is a book about life under sentence of death in American prisons. The great majority of condemned prisoners are confined on death rows before they are executed. Death rows typically……続きを見る

Der Autor Roland Schulz hat mit seinem Buch “So sterben wir” viel Aufmerksamkeit erregt. Er vertritt die Ansicht, dass der Tod unumgänglich ist. Einige Wissenschaftler meinen hingegen, dass wir scho……続きを見る

The two volumes of Death, Dying, and the Ending of Life present the core of recent philosophical work on end-of-life issues. Volume I examines issues in death and consent: the nature of death, brain……続きを見る

Arturito Cáñamo, alias Siete Patíbulos, con su apellido evocador de horca, se escandalizaba de que un día quisieran tocarle "la piedra angular" de la sociedad, abolir la última pena. Con este título……続きを見る

The aftermath of a school shooting is horrifying as the community comes to terms of what happened in their safety net they call home. This book delves into the perspectives of Matthew and Max's pare……続きを見る

This book is a collection of work on aging and development from authors from the global south. Aging is steadily evolving as a public health and social crisis for which countries of the global south……続きを見る

Death is the destiny we all share, and this will not change. Yet the way we die, which had remained the same for many generations, has changed drastically in a relatively short time for those in dev……続きを見る

The Living and the Dead examines the boundaries between the worlds of life and death. The text draws upon philosophy, ethnography, literature and natural science to suggest that life and death are b……続きを見る

This book expands the art historical perspective on art’s connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies from various methodological perspectives. The contrib……続きを見る

O estudo sobre a terminalidade humana começou quando o homem, conscientemente, questionou sobre a Morte. Hoje nos perguntamos quando isso ocorreu e em que circunstância surgiu a descoberta do maior ……続きを見る

Um dos mais importantes estudos psicológicos do século XX, 'Sobre a morte e o morrer' teve origem nos importantes seminários interdisciplinares da Dra. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross sobre vida, morte e tran……続きを見る

Winner, Lincoln Group of New York Award of Achievement 2019 From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and restora……続きを見る

Douglas realizó la labor de investigación de los ritos funerarios en Murélaga que sustenta la presente obra, ya un verdadero clásico, guiado por su convencimiento de que "en la sociedad vasca, las r……続きを見る

Death is among the most natural, and most confusing, parts of being human. Its inevitability and universality do nothing to alleviate our messy feelings about the subject. It’s why you have no idea ……続きを見る

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come? The end of life has never meant the extinction of hope. People perpetually have yearned for, and often been terrified by, continuance beyond the hori……続きを見る

Over the years, the belief system around self sacrifice has become key to understanding the Middle East and its political relationships with the West although much of the literature and conversation……続きを見る

Der freiwillige Verzicht auf Nahrung und Flüssigkeit (FVNF) stellt eine ethisch kontrovers diskutierte Möglichkeit dar, das eigene Leben angesichts einer schweren, unheilbaren Erkrankung oder angesi……続きを見る

In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking comes a legendary editor’s unflinching love song about his radiant wife, Margaret, and her battle with cancer. It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley……続きを見る

**Foreword by Alan Ball “Elegant, respectful and refreshingly funny.” ーNew York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice** For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas ……続きを見る