Is there life after death? Near death experiences—people coming back from the dead with tales from the other side—have become a worldwide phenomenon. In this book, Rev John Spooner combines expert research, gripping first hand testimony, analysis of scripture and accounts
Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the People and Places We Lo
How do we align our end-of-life choices with our values? In a world experiencing a climate crisis and a culture that avoids discussions about death and dying, environmentalist and educator Mallory McDuff takes readers on a journey to discover new, sustainable practices around death and dying.
Encompassing new content on the treatment of grief, loss, and bereavement, this updated and revised fifth edition delivers the most current research and practical information for upper-level students and practitioners alike. New to the fifth edition are updates to the author's Tasks and Mediators of Mourning, new case studies, and valuable ......
Some of the greatest writers in the history of the art-Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Jerzy Kosinski, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Virginia Woolf-all chose to silence themselves by suicide, leaving their families and friends with heartbreak and the world of literature with gaping holes. Their reasons for killing themselves, when known, were ......
With a focus on clinical application, this text combines the knowledge and skills of counselling psychology with current theory and research in grief and bereavement. This edition is updated to address issues related to the developmental aspects of grief, including grief in children, grief as a lifespan concept, and grief in an aging demographic.
Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a portrait of the mourning process in children. The volume presents major findings from the Harvard Child Bereavement Study.
A groundbreaking collection that explores human-animal relations and deaths with depth and hope When Animals Die is an innovative collection of essays that delves into the intricate and uneasy dynamics between humans and other-than-human animals, particularly concerning animal deaths, which are predominantly caused by humans. This groundbreaking ......
Argues that a range of behaviors such as murder-suicide, terrorism, and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than by homicidal ones Mass shooters often display behaviors that strongly mirror the warning signs for suicide: lives led in isolation, intense personal suffering, disaffection, and struggle. Letters ......
A Dignified Ending challenges the idea that prolonging life by every means possible is the only reasonable response to a dire diagnosis or to intractable suffering. It uses true accounts to illustrate how people have choreographed their deaths, and it recommends that death with dignity laws include dementias and other neurodegenerative disorders.
An Investigation of Death and Dying In Modern America
Our healthcare system is broken-particularly for the elderly and terminally ill. Modern healthcare is obsessed with trying to extend life instead of caring holistically for the patient. The fear of death compounds these problems. The Journeys End offers unique perspectives and solutions to these issues.
Contemporary Perspectives, Institutions, and Practices
Written by luminaries who have shaped the field, this capstone book distils the collective wisdom of foremost scholars and practitioners, who together have nearly a millennium of experience in the death and dying movement. The book bears witness to the discipline's evolution and presents the insights of its pioneers, eyewitnesses, and major ......
How Parents Cope with the Death of a Child to Suicide or Drugs
This book fills a critical gap in our scientific understanding of the grief response of parents who have lost a child to traumatic death and the psychotherapeutic strategies that best facilitate healing. It is based on the results of the largest study ever conducted of parents surviving a child's traumatic death or suicide. The book was conceived ......
This manual provides an empirically supported approach to treating suicidality that is specifically tailored to today's managed care environment. Structured yet flexible, the model is fully compatible with current best practice standards. The authors establish the empirical and theoretical foundations for time-limited treatment and describe the ......
Moral evaluations of actions are only appropriate for actions within the moral domain. Actions outside of the moral domain are amoral actions. In Why Suicide Is Amoral: A Philosophical Account, Robyn Gaier emphasizes the role of agency in determining whether an action is within the moral domain. If an agent lacks either deliberative agency or ......
A spirited look at how funeral homes impacted American consumerism, the built environment, and national identities.
Funeral homes—those grand, aging mansions repurposed into spaces for embalming, merchandising, funeral services, and housing for the funeral director and their family—are immediately recognizable ......
A groundbreaking collection that explores human-animal relations and deaths with depth and hope When Animals Die is an innovative collection of essays that delves into the intricate and uneasy dynamics between humans and other-than-human animals, particularly concerning animal deaths, which are predominantly caused by humans. This groundbreaking ......
A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era
This volume bridges the gap between forensic and cultural anthropology in how both disciplines describe and theorize the dead, highlighting the potential for interdisciplinary scholarship. As applied disciplines dealing with some of the most marginalized people in our society, forensic anthropologists have the potential to shed light on important ......
Argues that a range of behaviors such as murder-suicide, terrorism, and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than by homicidal ones Mass shooters often display behaviors that strongly mirror the warning signs for suicide: lives led in isolation, intense personal suffering, disaffection, and struggle. Letters ......
An old man learns how to die from a younger woman facing death For the entire six months that Mark Dowie became friends with Judith Tannenbaum, they both knew she was going to die. In fact for most of that time they knew the exact hour she would go ... sometime between 11:00 AM and noon, December 5, 2019, which she did. They talked about many ......
An old man learns how to die from a younger woman facing death For the entire six months that Mark Dowie became friends with Judith Tannenbaum, they both knew she was going to die. In fact for most of that time they knew the exact hour she would go ... sometime between 11:00 AM and noon, December 5, 2019, which she did. They talked about many ......
How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality
A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death From blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left by those considering suicide, technology has become a medium for the dead and the dying to cope with the anxiety of death. Services like artificial intelligence chatbots, mind-uploading, and postmortem blog posts ......
Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-19
As the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare in a region synonymous with early death. But the modernization of death care by a diverse group of actors changed not only death rituals but fundamental ideas about health and wellness. Kristine McCusker charts the dramatic ......
How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality
A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death From blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left by those considering suicide, technology has become a medium for the dead and the dying to cope with the anxiety of death. Services like artificial intelligence chatbots, mind-uploading, and postmortem blog posts ......
Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-19
As the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare in a region synonymous with early death. But the modernization of death care by a diverse group of actors changed not only death rituals but fundamental ideas about health and wellness. Kristine McCusker charts the dramatic ......
Sociology of Death and the American Indian examines dying, death, disposal, and bereavement practices and applies those concepts to selectAmerican Indian tribes historically and currently, supplemented with oral histories. The focus is that learning about other cultures can enhance the understanding of one's own culture by comparing traditional ......
How Non-being Haunts Being explores the many different modes of absence and non-being that pervade life, language, thought, and culture. A highly readable book of great interest to a wide audience, it ensures that readers will never think of life, death, or themselves, the same way again.
This book presents a sociological analysis of death and bereavement practices of American Indians with oral histories from select tribes describing their practices.
Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural investigates fundamental anthropological questions about humanity, the concept of 'dead,' and how we relate to our own genders when using the supernatural to understand them.
In 1965, 53 men died in a Titan II missile silo in rural Arkansas, the deadliest nuclear accident ever in a U.S. facility. This book provides an analysis of the event and post-disaster life for their children, who share stories on what went wrong and how they keep moving forward.
Exploring a new approach to interfaith/interreligious communication, the contributors to this collection seek to interact from the perspective of their own tradition or academic discipline with Ernest Becker's theory on the relationship between religion, culture and the human awareness of death and mortality. While much interfaith/interreligious ......
A new book exploring the mystery of dying and the power of our own life stories to heal and bring peace at this time of great transition and grief. Drawing heavily on real people’s stories, Facing Death explores the emotional and spiritual journey individuals traverse in the weeks and months leading up to dying.
How Non-being Haunts Being explores the many different modes of absence and non-being that pervade life, language, thought, and culture. A highly readable book of great interest to a wide audience, it ensures that readers will never think of life, death, or themselves, the same way again.
Through an analysis of suicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky's writings, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how his implicit awareness of self-homicide pre-figured theories of prominent suicidologists, shaped both his philosophy and craft as a writer, and forged a ligature between artistry and the pluripresent impulse to self-annihilate.
Through a series of case studies, the author explores the paradoxical relationship between creativity and self-destruction. Creativity and suicide, he argues, are both avenues to the resolution of personal catastrophes, with the door to suicide becoming unlocked when creativity's restitutive powers fail.
This book takes a critical glance at the ritualized practices of death-corpse preparation, disposal, and aesthetic representation-and examines the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization.
