Death & Dying
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All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work
$19.00 Add to cartA deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people–morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners–who work in it and what led them there.
We are surrounded b- Author: Campbell, Hayley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250906237
- Language: English
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The Denial of Death
$20.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker’s brilliant and impassioned answer to the “why” of human existence. In bold contrast to
- Author: Becker, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 08, 1997
- ISBN10: 0684832402
- Language: English
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions about Dead Bodies
$16.99 Add to cartEveryone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to o
- Author: Doughty, Caitlin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358496
- Language: English
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Dying to Meet You: Confessions of a Funeral Director
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Mei, Angjolie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1648414389
- Language: English
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The Green Funeral: Honoring the Environment While Beautifying Funeral Practices
$19.99 Add to cartThe care of creation is the responsibility of all Christians.
Join Sequola Dawson in her insightful exploration of death rituals as she examines funerals, memorials, and burial practices, urging us to
- Author: Dawson, Sequola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889834977
- Language: English
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Grief’s Walking Stick: A Personal Journey from Sorrow to Service
$14.99 Add to cartWith profound insight and heartfelt candor, Grief’s Walking Stick takes readers on a transformative journey from death and grief avoidance to embracing these inevitable parts of life. The chronicle of… [more below]
- Author: Garrett, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 103831433X
- Language: English
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Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins
$28.95 Add to cartDeath is the great equalizer, but not all deaths are created equal. In recent years, there has been an increased interest and advocacy concerning end-of-life and after-death care. An increasing number… [more below]
- Author: Shea, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1978843984
- Language: English
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Curious Coffins and Riveting Rituals: Death Practices Around the World
$26.95 Add to cartDiscover the world’s most fascinating death and funeral traditions in this illustrated modern-day memento mori.
Embark on a whirlwind tour of burial, preservation, and memorial practices and landmarks- Author: Liak, Yy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1797230042
- Language: English
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Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death
$28.00 Add to cartBased on the popular podcast, Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American culture of death and how we’re remembered.
It’s safe to say everyone thinks about death–whe- Author: Henry, Spencer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0593475283
- Language: English
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In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
$27.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death–and what might follow–by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm. For years as an a- Author: Junger, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1668050838
- Language: English
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Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us
$40.00 Add to cartA macabre, spectacular, and thought-provoking survey of death in life, this book collects the many ways human remains are used in decorative, commemorative, and devotional contexts around the world to
- Author: Koudounaris, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0500252610
- Language: English
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The American Way of Death Revisited
$19.00 Add to cartOnly the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an expos? of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When fi… [more below]
- Author: Mitford, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0679771867
- Language: English
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American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century
$46.58 Add to cartA mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary life
Death in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected,- Author: Dawdy, Shannon Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0691210640
- Language: English
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Last Rites: The Evolution of the American Funeral
$26.99 Read moreThe Untold Story of American Funeral and Mourning Traditions
Why do we embalm the deceased? Why are funerals so expensive? Is there a reason coffins are shaped the way they are? When–and why–did we- Author: Harra, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1683648056
- Language: English
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Death Interrupted: How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die
$17.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
In Death Interrupted, ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era.
Do
- Author: Bigham, Blair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1487008546
- Language: English
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Our Grateful Dead: Stories of Those Left Behind Volume 65
$22.95 Add to cartAn award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the living
A common remedy after suffering the loss of a loved one is to progress through the “stages of grief,” with “accepta- Series: PostHumanities
- Author: Despret, Vinciane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1517911419
- Language: English
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The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care
$22.50 Add to cartA short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.
These days, so much of our lives takes place online–but what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital tra- Author: Öhman, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0226828220
- Language: English
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Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
$18.99 Add to cartBy the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came … [more below]
- Author: Harris, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 09 2008
- ISBN10: 1416564047
- Language: English
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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
$14.99 Add to cartA light-hearted look at the history and practice of “the ultimate human-interest story,” the obituary.
“What a wonderful surprise–a charming, lyrical book about the men and women who write obituaries.
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0060758767
- Language: English
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Wisdom of the Dying
$30.95 Add to cartYou will die. But first you will live. Wisdom of the Dying eloquently explores what brings meaning to our lives from the lens of a frontline health-care worker who watched many die over the course of
- Author: Abbasi, Hamza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1963569830
- Language: English
