Death & Dying
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Wisdom of the Dying
$15.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1963569849
- Language: English
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Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die
$18.99 Add to cartTo die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under–whatever death is called, it’s going to happen. In 1789 B
- Author: Largo, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0060817410
- Language: English
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Angelic Attendants: What Really Happens As We Transition From This Life Into The Next
$12.95 Add to cartFor Julie Ryan is an inventor, entrepreneur, medical intuitive and psychic whose learned skills have helped many families understand the glorious side of the dying process. It This process involves an
- Author: Ryan, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: June 28 2017
- ISBN10: 099912594X
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Funeral Director: How Death Saved My Life
$19.99 Add to cart“I tremble to say there’s good in death, because I’ve looked in the eyes of the grieving mother and I’ve seen the heartbreak of the stricken widow, but I’ve also seen something more in death, somethin
- Author: Wilde, Caleb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0062465252
- Language: English
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The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years
$26.00 Add to cartAn “absolutely magnificent” book (The New Republic)–the fruit of almost two decades of study–that traces the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to … [more below]
- Author: Aries, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0394751566
- Language: English
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Living with the Dead: How We Care for the Deceased
$25.00 Read moreSpanning geographies, cultures, and the ages, a moving journey into the physical facts and metaphysical mysteries of how the living care for the dead.
Death is universal. It will meet us all. But it- Author: Viestad, Vibeke Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147689
- Language: English
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The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
$25.00 Add to cartA riveting, incisive, and wide-ranging book about the Right to Die movement, and the doctors, patients, and activists at the heart of this increasingly urgent issue.
*Finalist for the New York Public- Author: Engelhart, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1250827965
- Language: English
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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
$32.00 Read moreThe meaning of our concern for mortal remains–from antiquity through the twentieth century
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beas- Author: Laqueur, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180938
- Language: English
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Elysian Hills: Embracing Life Through Conscious Dying
$17.99 Add to cartPaul William Schmidt’s stepmother, Mary Lou, intentionally chose to end her life and asked him and his father to stay by her side during her last forty-four days. In this poignant and insightful book,
- Author: Schmidt, Paul William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 195909940X
- Language: English
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
$24.00 Add to cart“Warraich’s elegant and poignant book takes us on an unforgettable journey….He succeeds in humanizing a complex topic.” –Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gene
There is- Author: Warraich, Haider
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160847
- Language: English
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The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
$27.99 Add to cartAn 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 int
- Author: Hannig, Anita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1728244919
- Language: English
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Honest Endings: A Social Worker’s Life in the World of Hospice
$12.95 Add to cartHONEST ENDINGSDo You Have Worries or Fears about Witnessing the End of Life?Gain Freedom from your Anxieties and Fears about the Natural Dying Process Know what You Can Say or Do to Comfort the Dying … [more below]
- Author: M. S. W., Katherine Cullen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 54
- Publish Date: March 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1646544366
- Language: English
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The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
$17.99 Add to cart“Copies of this book should be in every doctor’s office in the country, to educate patients and doctors themselves!” –Diane Rehm, interviewer and narrator of the PBS documentary When My Time Comes
An
- Author: Hannig, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1728259428
- Language: English
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Death: A Graveside Companion
$45.00 Add to cartDeath is an inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humanity has sought to understand this sobering thought through art and ritual. The theme of memento mori informs medieval Danse Macabre,
- Author: Ebenstein, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0500519714
- Language: English
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Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
$18.99 Add to cartA “marvelously macabre” (Kirkus Reviews) history of the bizarre afterlives of corpses of the celebrated and notorious dead.
For some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start- Author: Lovejoy, Bess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1451655002
- Language: English
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There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster–Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
$19.99 Add to cartA journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define all that’s wrong with America.We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been
- Author: Singer, Jessie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982129689
- Language: English
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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.
A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding o- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1455535893
- Language: English
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death
$25.95 Add to cartEvery day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space shutt
- Author: Doughty, Caitlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 039365270X
- Language: English
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The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
$30.00 Add to cart“A rare and compassionate look into the lives of Americans who go unclaimed when they die and those who dedicate their lives to burying them with dignity.”–Matthew Desmond, #1 New York Times bestsell… [more below]
- Author: Prickett, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593239059
- Language: English
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Disconnected from Death: The Evolution of Funerary Customs and the Unmasking of Death in America
$16.00 Add to cartDISCONNECTED FROM DEATH
THE EVOLUTION OF FUNERARY CUSTOMS AND THE UNMAKING OF DEATH IN AMERICA
BY APRIL SLAUGHTER AND TROY TAYLORAmericans have a complicated history with death – that final darkness a
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: June 26, 2018
- ISBN10: 1732407908
- Language: English
