Death & Dying
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Making Friends with Death: A Field Guide for Your Impending Last Breath (to Be Read, Ideally, Before It’s Imminent!)
$26.95 Add to cartDeath is a great and grand mystery, and the actual act of dying is the last physical act of our lives. We can do it well, like a graceful well-rehearsed piano solo–or we can do it like that first awk… [more below]
- Author: Pritchett, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1632280590
- Language: English
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You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets
$30.00 Add to cartA kick-in-the-pants wake-up call to start living meaningfully in light of how many Mondays you have left from longtime coach, positive psychology expert, and Penn Resilience Program instructor Jodi We… [more below]
- Author: Wellman, Jodi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0316574279
- Language: English
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Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present
$32.95 Add to cartFrom insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shiel
- Author: Matthews David, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1350005088
- Language: English
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Broken: A Journey Through Long Term Care
$12.99 Add to cartI HAVE LEARNED THAT LIFE IS IN CHAPTERS. Which chapter are you in? Each chapter in BROKEN is designed to help you to navigate your long-term care journey.
My personal journey was taking care of two im
- Author: Anker, Wanda Moore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890413260
- Language: English
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A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death
$18.95 Add to cartWritten by Chris Woodyard, the author of The Victorian Book of the Dead, A is for Arsenic is a guide to the the basics of Victorian mourning and death all illustrated by the incomparable Landis Blair.
- Author: Woodyard, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0988192543
- Language: English
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Final Exit (Third Edition): The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
$20.00 Add to cartAs the legal controversy continues–this newly revised and updated third edition of the landmark bestseller contains new, critically important information for patients, loved ones, and medical personn… [more below]
- Author: Humphry, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0385336535
- 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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Judgement Day: Deeds That Light the Way
$15.95 Add to cartAli ibn Abi Talib said: ‘The life of this world is quickly
departing and the life of the hereafter is quickly approaching and each one of
them has its children. So be children of the hereafter, not chil… [more below]- Author: Suleiman, Omar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1847741975
- 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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Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind
$27.99 Add to cartWinner of a Gold Nautilus Award
Featured on Katie Couric Media’s “37 Life-Changing Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down”
“We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love,” Barbara Becker reminds- Author: Becker, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1250095980
- Language: English
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Do Not Ignore Your Mortality: Practical Advice From a Funeral & Financial Insider
$14.99 Add to cartYou will be hard pressed to find another book like this one.
Greg has delicately pulled together a gripping message that so many adults need to hear.
Only about half the adult population of Canada and t… [more below]
- Author: Barnsdale, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1525584901
- Language: English
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Myths of the Underworld: Timeless Tales of the Afterlife, Love, Revenge, Fatal Attraction and More from Around the World (Includes Stories abou
$15.95 Read moreImmerse yourself in stories of gods and goddesses of the underworld and explore how themes of death, love, and revenge are depicted in folklore and mythology by different cultures around the world.
My- Author: Christinee, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1646045548
- 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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The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
$19.95 Read more“iHo is a vast, rich work of public-intellectual engagement. . . The values built into this beautifully inquiring play operate outside of common dramatic economies. Kushner’s carefully organized labor
- Author: Kushner, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1559364890
- 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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San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History
$24.99 Read moreDigging into a forgotten past – and the dead left behind.
San Francisco is famous for not having any cemeteries, but the claim isn’t exactly what it seems. In the early 20th Century, the city relocat… [more below]- Series: The History Press
- Author: Winegarner, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 146715492X
- Language: English
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Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More
$30.00 Read moreJAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER – A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, an “inspiring” (The New York Times Boo… [more below]
- Author: Ali, Fatima
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0593355199
- 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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With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
$19.99 Add to cartFor readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor’s breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying.
Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and f- Author: Mannix, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0316504475
- Language: English
