Death & Dying
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And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh’s And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience.
As a retired brain surgeon,- Author: Marsh, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1250880998
- 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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Self-Inflicted: Confronting the Suicide Taboo
$15.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1958714992
- 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
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I’m Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America
$18.99 Add to cartA must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America.
More than a million people lose a pregnancy each year, whether through miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination for medic
- Author: Little, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1728292786
- Language: English
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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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The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State: A History of Montana’s Cemeteries
$19.95 Add to cartThe Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and sensitive perspective on the evolution of customs and burial grounds… [more below]
- Author: Baumler, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496214803
- Language: English
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Clergy Retirement
$28.00 Add to cartIn Clergy Retirement: Every Ending a New Beginning for Clergy, Their Families, and Congregants, retirement is likened to a death experience, but much more. Besides saying goodbye to congregants, colle… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Daniel A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 22 2017
- ISBN10: 1532601190
- Language: English
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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 Read moreThere 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
$29.00 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
