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  • Almost a Mother
    Christy Wopat
    "After my infant twins died, I couldn’t find anything on the shelves at the bookstore that was actually honest."I found books about grief, sure. Books written by psychologists on the stages of grief and books that assured me that I would find my answers in prayer. This isn’t meant to replace those. Those books are necessary, but in the raw, emotional weeks and months after losi...
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    19,83 €

  • Inner Sky
    Steven Layer
    A conversation about resistance...to life's experiences. If I had one afternoon to spend with my friend Lily, just diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, what would I say?  I had been where she is now, yet against all the odds found the way to experience a complete and spontaneous healing. The secrets I was shown are the opposite of what society teaches us. This was not...
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    28,77 €

  • Spoiler Alert
    Jacquie Purcell / Korttany Finn
    One thing you can count on in life is the fact that you are going to die. How’s that for a buzzkill? Most people diligently ignore the reality of their future demise. Thinking about death somehow seems wrong. Luckily, a real life coroner challenged a few thousand internet strangers to do the thinking for you. The result is a collection of morbid and slightly embarrassing questi...
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    9,88 €

  • Keramat, Sacred Relics and Forbidden Idols in Singapore
    William L. Gibson
    This book critically examines the often-tense relationship between keramat and authority, both secular and religious, from colonial to modern times.A vital resource for scholars, this work contributes to a people’s history of Singapore, one that both deepens and problematizes official historical accounts. ...
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    82,82 €

  • Reframing Suicide
    This book focuses on understanding and researching suicide and suicide prevention from historical, political, cultural, social, and philosophical perspectives, all of which are located in particular contexts of research and practice. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Social Epistemology. ...
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    76,29 €

  • Though Silent They Speak
    Abby Burnett
    Though Silent They Speak: Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards is a fascinating and informative guidebook to the most unusual graves and graveyards in Arkansas. Within the pages, readers explore showy marble monuments in city cemeteries and haunting, primitive carvings and inscriptions discovered in isolated, rural graveyards, while telling the stories behind these burials. Exam...
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    35,07 €

  • Life Before Death
    Ann Cartwright / John L. Anderson / Lisbeth Hockey
    First published in 1973, this study describes the last 12 months in the lives of 785 adults. Based mainly on the reports of close relatives, it is concerned with the needs of the dying and the care they receive. This includes the more emotional aspects such as ’awareness’ of dying and the effects of the death on relatives. ...
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    63,48 €

  • So, What’s Grief Really Like?
    Susan-Rose McIntyre
    Finally, Someone Who Truly UnderstandsYou don’t need another book that talks about grief - you need someone who knows exactly what you are going through.This book is that kind and caring companion, written by a qualified grief counselor, who suffered a profound loss of her own, having spent years helping others to deal with theirs.In So, What’s Grief Really Like? you will:Gain ...
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    11,76 €

  • Spirits, Ghosts, & Dybbuks
    Simcha Paull Raphael
    A richly researched and deeply spiritual work, Spirits, Ghosts, and Dybbuks: Afterlife Journeys in Yiddish Lore delves into the arcane realms of Jewish afterlife beliefs as vibrantly expressed through the imaginative worlds of Yiddish literature. In deftly demonstrating how the writings of I.L. Peretz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and others synthesized classical Jewish eschatology w...
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    21,20 €

  • A Death of the World
    Harris B. Bechtol
    Offers a description of what happens to survivors after a death, based on the effect this death has on the survivor’s relation to the spatial and temporal world occupied after the loss of the deceased.A Death of the World offers a phenomenological description of what happens to the world for those who survive the death of someone. Bringing Jacques Derrida’s works into conversat...
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    45,94 €

  • Are You Going Out Like That?
    Neil J Milliner
    Are You Going Out Like That? is not your grandmother’s end-of-life guide-unless she had a flair for gallows humor and a color-coded legacy binder. This cheeky, heartfelt handbook invites readers to face the inevitable with grace, grit, and a healthy dose of sarcasm.From writing your own obituary (before someone else botches it) to choosing the playlist for your memorial (no Col...
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    6,78 €

  • Death Without Fear
    L. Saxon Elliott
    Fear of death is primal and universal, an inexorable part of the human condition. And yet, Western Culture perpetuates denial and avoidance, a conspiracy of silence. Whether existential distress is centered on personal mortality or loss of loved ones, the process of dying or death itself, this authoritative yet accessible manual for mortals offers relief. Informed by mor...
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    42,66 €

  • Death and Danger on the Western Frontier
    Jeremy Agnew
    In modern times, men and women in America expect to lead long and fruitful lives. In the second half of the nineteenth century in the Old West, contrary to what the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia and popular media suggest, daily existence was harsh and filled with perils that dimmed the outlook for a long lifetime. This history chronicles some of the dangers--accident...
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    71,95 €

  • Nous nous reverrons sur l’arc-en-ciel
    Giuseppe et Kira
    As-tu perdu récemment ton chien, ou crains-tu que ce jour n’arrive bientôt ?Tu te demandes comment faire face à une douleur aussi immense ?Quand on perd son chien, on ne perd pas seulement un animal.On perd une partie de soi.On te répète que ce n’était qu’un chien ou que le temps guérira tout , mais ceux qui n’ont jamais aimé ainsi ne peuvent comprendre combien cela fait mal. '...
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    19,74 €

  • Last Scene of All
    Jessica Goodman
    Death in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical and cultural tradition. Yet any stage death is also a non-ending: just one in a series of repeated (re)presentations, by an actor who will live (and die) again. Spanning six centuries and seven countries, this study considers how different dramatic authors have ...
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    17,56 €

  • Death Doula
    Kelly Ruby Hanson
    Help the dying and their loved ones by becoming a death doula.Have you witnessed someone’s last days and felt completely inept at supporting them as they prepared for the inevitable? Would you like to help dying people, and their loved ones, deal with the numerous internal and external challenges surrounding death? Becoming a trained death doula allows you to provide hands-on s...
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    13,31 €

  • Understanding baby loss
    Elspeth Whitby / Julie Ellis / Kate Reed
    This book offers a detailed and sensitive account of how parents experience different forms of baby loss, and subsequently make decisions about post-mortem examination. It also analyses some of the challenges professionals face when working in this highly sensitive field of medicine. It draws on data from an ESRC award-winning UK based study on the development of minimally inva...
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    44,32 €

  • everybody dies....and that’s okay
    peacewillow devine
    does the thought of death frighten or sadden you?do you wish you had a better understanding of it, but avoid the subject anyway?then this is the book for you!within these pages, we will take a light-hearted look at the why, how, when and where of death, as well as what comes after.accompanied by thought provoking images, poetry and facts, along with practical tips and advice, t...
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    24,74 €

  • African Ethics and Death
    Elphus Muade / Motsamai Molefe
    This book analyses the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death. Providing an important overview of the ethical problems associated with the biological fact of death, it will be of interest to researchers across the fields of philosophy and African Studies. ...
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    42,73 €

  • The Danger Of Premature Interment
    Joseph Taylor
    Unearth the chilling truths of the past with 'The Danger of Premature Interment' by Joseph Taylor a gripping exploration of life, death, and the thin line that separates them. This once-lost classic, out of print for decades, has been meticulously restored and republished by Alpha Editions, offering a rare glimpse into the haunting tales of those who narrowly escaped being buri...
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    11,99 €

  • Because of Organ Donation
    Brenda E. Cortez
    Because of Organ Donation Series: Book 3Organ donation is a remarkable gift, offering hope to many who suffer from organ failure. It often represents the only chance at a whole and healthy life. Through organ donation, we witness countless stories of hope and inspiration, and this book series aims to share as many of those stories as possible.Each chapter of this book reveals t...
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    27,07 €

  • Pillole di Morte. Atti del primo Convegno Network in Italiano sulla Morte e Oblio NIMO
    NIMO Network
    Care lettrici e cari lettori, è con grande piacere che vi diamo il benvenuto con questa raccolta di interventi, frutto del nostro primo convegno annuale. In questiatti troverete non solo il riflesso di dibattiti stimolanti e ricchi di spunti, ma anche l’essenza del nostro impegno come Network in Italiano sulla Morte e Oblio (NIMO). Questa raccolta vuole introdurre al grande pub...
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    18,44 €

  • Exploring End of Life Experience
    Helen Besemeres
    The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death - Jenny Diski, Philip Gould, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor. ...
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    74,64 €

  • Tears at the Altar, Lament in My Breasts
    Andrea Campbell Byer-Thomas
    Grief is a language many are forced to learn. Yet, the spaces many turn to for solace often fail to make room for its depth and complexity. Tears at the Altar, Lament in My Breasts is a courageous exploration of lament as a sacred act of worship and a pathway to healing. Born from the author’s raw experience of the death of her child, this book invites readers into the messy, u...
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    23,84 €

  • Shared Grace
    Sue Bonner
    Sue Bonner (Subhana) experienced many deaths in her younger years-parents, friends and a baby son. These life events led her to being trained by and working for Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, MD in her Life Death and Transition workshops. Later in life these experiences led her to become an Interfaith Hospice Chaplain.Shared Grace is more than a memoir. It is a tribute to the lives of ...
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    26,80 €

  • BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE 1000 Spiritual Questions to Ask Myself Before I Die
    Aria Capri Publishing / Vasquez
    Unlock the secrets of your soul and navigate the final chapters of your life with profound clarity and purpose. 'BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE 1000 Questions to Ask Myself Before I Die' is not just a book-it is your insightful companion in the ultimate journey of self-discovery and legacy-building.In the relentless pace of modern life, moments of deep introspection are rare. This though...
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    15,98 €

  • Articulate Necrographies
    Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and their interactions with the living. Traditional anthropology has tended to dichotomize societies where death 'speaks' from those where death is 'silent' - the latter is deemed 'scientific' and the former 'religious' or 'magical'. The collection i...
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    47,12 €

  • Death
    Marc Trabsky
    This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century. ...
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    36,98 €

  • Gravers
    LANDE JEWELS
    Did you know that, seen from archaeological perspective, London soil is a layer cake with evidence dating as far as Neolithic era through to Bronze and Iron ages, Roman, Medieval, Post Medieval and Contemporary period? Much can be learned of the social context and culture by how those populations treated and disposed of their dead, how beliefs and rituals shaped their practices...
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    18,01 €

  • Living with the Dead
    J. Jeremy Wisnewski
    This book explores the moral place of the dead in our lives and in our afterlives. It argues that our lives are saturated by the past intentions and values of the dead, and that we offer the dead a form of modest immortality by fulfilling our obligations to remember them. ...
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    77,23 €