Death & Dying
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
$15.95 Read moreThe human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects … [more below]
- Author: Larson, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490990
- Language: English
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The Lost Art of Resurrection: Initiation, Secret Chambers, and the Quest for the Otherworld
$18.95 Read moreReveals the radical ancient practice of living resurrection, in which initiates ritually died and were reborn into a state of higher consciousness
– Explores living resurrection initiation practices f- Author: Silva, Freddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1620556367
- Language: English
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Here We Go / Escaped Alone: Two Plays
$14.95 Read more“What Churchill has written is a striking memento mori for an age without faith; and although her play is brief, that in itself evokes the idea that we are here for a short time and then are suddenly
- Author: Churchill, Caryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1559365404
- Language: English
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What Remains?: Life, Death, Ritual and the Human Art of Undertaking
$28.00 Read moreDeath is not my friend, neither is it my enemy; it is my destiny.
“Part memoir, part rant against the traditional funeral business, part manifesto, part just musing on death and facing it with compass
- Author: Callender, Rupert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1915294126
- Language: English
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Over Our Dead Bodies:: Undertakers Lift the Lid
$15.95 Read moreWith humor and heart, Over Our Dead Bodies does for the undertaking profession what Mary Roach’s Stiff did for cadavers, and, like Caitlin Doughty’s Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? gives us permission t… [more below]
- Author: McKenzie, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0806541415
- Language: English
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Morbid Magic: Death Spirituality and Culture from Around the World
$22.99 Read moreThe Ultimate Book on Macabre Lore & Spiritual Traditions from Yesterday & Today
Written with a mix of reverence, approachability, and deadpan wit by a funeral industry insider, Morbid Magic is the fir
- Author: Prower, Tomás
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0738760617
- Language: English
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
$15.95 Add to cart“Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.” So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334872
- 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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Grave
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they c- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Meier, Allison C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383655
- Language: English
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Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead
$29.00 Read moreCorpse Care relates the history of death care in the U.S. to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and past
- Author: Sanders, Cody J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1506471315
- Language: English
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Death Is a Day Worth Living
$26.99 Read more“Although many choose to live as if dead, all have the right to die alive. When my turn comes, I want my life to end in a good way: on that day, I want to be alive.”
Dr. Ana Claudia Quintana Arantes’s
- Author: Quintana Arantes, Ana Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1506487726
- Language: English
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Merits of the Plague
$18.00 Read moreThe preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic world, now in English for the first time
A Penguin Classic Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and re- Author: Hajar Al-Asqalani, Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0143136615
- Language: English
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A New Science of the Afterlife: Space, Time, and the Consciousness Code
$16.99 Read moreReveals how the continuity of consciousness beyond the physical body can be objectively demonstrated
– Explores 15 promising avenues of post-materialist scientific investigation currently underway – P- Author: Drasin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1644116812
- Language: English
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Everything Is Temporary: Illustrated Contemplations on How Death Shapes Our Lives
$17.00 Read moreA beautiful, illustrated reflection on death, mortality, and what it means to be human.
It is an unavoidable fact of life that one day, you will die. Until very recently, death was a subject that many- Author: Gottlieb, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0593419472
- Language: English
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Rabbit Hole
$18.95 Read moreA Pulitzer Prize-winning play about carrying on in the shadow of loss.
- Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1559362901
- Language: English
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The Train Driver and Other Plays
$19.95 Add to cart“For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this.”–Athol Fugard
“A dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . .
- Author: Fugard, Athol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 09 2012
- ISBN10: 155936386X
- 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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Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
$27.99 Add to cartMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami, radiation levels prohibited the burial o
- Author: Mockett, Marie Mutsuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352293
- Language: English
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Impossible Things
$23.95 Add to cartOffering an intimate account of intergenerational grief, Miller Oberman’s new collection of poetry, Impossible Things, explores his experiences as both a transgender child and father. Oberman weaves i… [more below]
- Author: Oberman, Miller
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1478031093
- Language: English
