Death & Dying
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Self-Inflicted: Confronting the Suicide Taboo
$25.99 Add to cartIn Self-Inflicted, Dr. Karl T. Muth advances the argument that suicide should be a choice widely-available, that the optimal number of suicides per year is not zero but a number much higher, and that
- Author: Muth, Karl T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1958714984
- 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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Death
$18.95 Add to cartThere is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad … [more below]
- Series: Open Yale Courses
- Author: Kagan, Shelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0300180845
- Language: English
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Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope Into Action; A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartLOS ANGELES TIMES AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER – The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure–and became a … [more below]
- Author: Fajgenbaum, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1524799637
- Language: English
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Musical Morphine: Transforming Pain One Note at a Time
$17.95 Add to cartRobin Russell Gaiser became a Certified Music Practitioner after a career as a performing musician and teacher. As she learned how valuable music could be in easing patients’ pain — both physical and
- Author: Gaiser, Robin Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1942016174
- Language: English
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Death and the Idea of Mexico
$31.00 Add to cartDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Lomnitz, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951544
- 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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Grief Unveiled: One Father’s Journey Through the Death of a Child: Fifteen Years Later
$18.99 Add to cartGregory Floyd reveals his heart-breaking journey through the sorrow of losing his youngest son. He deals not only with his own broken heart, but also with the struggle to reconstruct his role as husba
- Author: Floyd, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1612612393
- 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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Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment — Expanded Edition
$29.95 Read moreThe Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times.
Love, Sex, Fear, Death is the shocking, surpri- Author: Wyllie, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1627311262
- Language: English
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Mortality
$22.00 Add to cartOn June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would lat… [more below]
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1455502758
- 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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So Now You’re a Widow: Tips, Advice, and Stories from Widows to Widows
$29.95 Add to cartThis warm, conversational, easily digestible book is for widows–women over 50 who are beginning new lives without their husbands. In So Now You’re a Widow, the author and the 34 women she interviewed
- Author: Merryfield, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: November 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1977217087
- Language: English
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Alzheimer’s Canyon: One Couple’s Reflections on Living with Dementia
$18.99 Add to cart2023 IPNE Award Winner, Narrative Nonfiction
2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist, Health (Adult Nonfiction)
2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist
5-Star Readers’ Favorite
What do you do when your realit
- Author: Dwinell, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1578691117
- 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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Modern Loss: Candid Conversation about Grief. Beginners Welcome.
$27.99 Add to cartInspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as “redefining mourning,” this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offeri
- Author: Soffer, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0062499181
- 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
