Michael - Death & Dying 1

Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generationーand how t……続きを見る

This work explores the author's encounters with times he almost died. A reflection on such events, in which we approach the razor's edge between life and death, has something to teach us. The author……続きを見る

Alles, was Frauen nach einer frühen Fehlgeburt wissen müssen! Caroline Lehmann hat es selbst erlebt: vier Fehlgeburten, ehe sie Mutter wurde. Mit ihrem Buch steht die Humangenetikerin und Ärztin in ……続きを見る

This work considers "agents of immortality," or what moves us to see the immortal dimension of our existence. Ways in which immortality can be envisioned are explored, such as looking at the immorta……続きを見る

La mort constitue l’un des moteurs fondamentaux de production d’images, et ce, dès l’aube de l’histoire humaine (Debray, 1992; Belting, 2004; Pigeaud, 2017). Les images mortuaires ont souvent été ap……続きを見る

Death, like most experiences that we think of as natural, is a product of the human imagination: all animals die, but only human beings suffer Death; and what they suffer is shaped by their own time……続きを見る

A beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last wordsーand the many facets of how language begins and endsーfrom a pioneering language writer. With our earliest utterances, we announce oursel……続きを見る

The story of the nation’s largest mass graveyard and the nearly one million people buried thereーbased on new documents and advances in DNA technology. Once a Civil War prison and training site and ……続きを見る

The first book to address the complicated issues surrounding what happens to members of the United States Armed Forces after they die. Why does recovering the remains of servicepeople matter? Soldie……続きを見る

Durch unsere Entwicklung durften wir lernen, ein selbstverantwortliches Leben zu führen. Wer sollte es uns dann verwehren, auch selbstbestimmt aus dem Leben zu gehen? Serge, Alma, Giada und Marcell ……続きを見る

In the tradition of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, this compassionate work helps individuals develop a more accepting view of dying while teaching them what to expect and how to navigate the healthcar……続きを見る

Falling Leaves is an collection of stories and remembrances by Michael DiMatteo. This anthology's intention is to show humans in their most vulnerable moments...at various endings be they moving to ……続きを見る

Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequent……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

Have you ever had to decide what to do with an unidentified corpse by a Devonian cowshed when the herd is due in for milking? And how would you react if one of your patients was abducted by aliens? ……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

Death on Demand explores the polarizing role of Jack Kevorkianー“Dr. Death”ーas the most visible leader of the right-to-die movement. From a feature on the cover of Time magazine to interviews on sh……続きを見る

Dr Sparrow is back, coping with more bizarre, macabre and hilarious situations. Following his successful debut with Country Doctor, he once more guides us through the daily rounds of the weird and w……続きを見る

Recently retired, Dr Sparrow reveals with refreshing candour and dark humour the most memorable experiences of his career as a rural GP. From sewing back on a patient’s chiselled finger on a call-ou……続きを見る

Sterben dürfen – die Streitschrift eines Arztes Die Würde des Menschen muss auch und gerade bei unheilbar kranken und alten Menschen respektiert und bewahrt bleiben. Viel zu oft allerdings setzen si……続きを見る

Una colección de reportajes periodísticos sobre la muerte en Bolivia Raúl Mercado murió el mismo día en que decidió estrenar la camisa que reservaba para su funeral. No fue el único detalle que pare……続きを見る

Fred Feldman, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is widely recognized for his subtle defense of hedonistic consequentialism and for his plain-spoken and exact phi……続きを見る