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  • Corpse Encounters
    Chase Pielak / Jacqueline Elam
    This book takes a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation and display, and ecological burial. Through tracing the possible futures of the dead that haunt the living, throu...
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    129,27 €

  • Death, The Dead and Popular Culture
    Ruth Penfold-Mounce
    Portrayals of death and the dead are everywhere within popular culture revealing much about contemporary society’s engagement with mortality. Drawing upon celebrity posthumous careers, organ transplantation mythology and the fictional dead, this book considers how representations of the dead in popular culture exert powerful agency. ...
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    104,42 €

  • Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy
    J. William PhD ABPP Worden / JWilliam PhD ABPP Worden
    Fourth Edition Named a 2013 Doody’s Core Title!Praise for the Fourth Edition:'In the fields of death education, research and counseling/psychology, surely Bill Worden is a giant...ALL of us, personally and professionally, are indebted to [him]. From his work we may be just a bit wiser, a bit healthier, a bit more competent, and a lot more in touch with meaning for the sake of a...
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    108,08 €

  • Memories From the End of the World
    Ewen MacDonald
    The man inside of this crepuscular husk is being methodically erased. Yet the rudiments are still glinting behind the frozen veneer of an impenetrable death mask.Memories from the End of the World focuses on the present condition and past life of a mysterious, seemingly nameless man. Trapped within the confines of his deathbed, the protagonist’s former existence is played out i...
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    14,24 €

  • Bridging The Gap
    Kimberly C. Paul
    Live vicariously through Kimberly C. Paul as she shares personal stories and the life lessons she has learned while working with hospice patients over the last 18 years. Each chapter will inspire you to design your own life and death around what matters most. The author, Kimberly C. Paul, will urge you to discard what you thought you knew about death and embrace a new way of th...
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    25,06 €

  • Is This Your First Funeral?
    Jimmy Huston
    A gentle guide through the uncertain moments of a child's first funeral experience. What to expect. How to find a way through the process of grief. How to accept the moments and share feelings. Charming illustrations. ...
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    11,19 €

  • The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century
    Brian Parsons
    This book examines the shifts that have taken place in the funeral industry since 1900, focusing on the figure of the undertaker and exploring how organizational change and attempts to gain recognition as a professional service provider saw the role morph into that of ’funeral director’. ...
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    150,86 €

  • What Will They Say?
    Allison Clarke
    Corporate coach Allison Clarke was on a plane to Atlanta when she realized that in order to fully live, she had to first be surrounded by death. Sounds strange, doesn't it? Not to Allison: a fearless mother of two who built her own consulting firm from the ground up. To Allison, it felt like a challenge, and as soon as she got home, she met with a funeral director. Her idea...
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    15,25 €

  • Buried Secrets
    Harry Pope
    It’s likely that you think of the funeral industry as a sombre one, populated by serious, grey-faced individuals whose days are filled with nothing but sadness and grief… but you couldn’t be further from the truth, as Harry Pope reveals in this hilarious memoir of his time as a funeral director.Over the course of his career, Harry was involved in more than a few unusual inciden...
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    11,13 €

  • Never Forget Andrew
    Perry Grosser
    Perry started writing after the sudden loss of his son, Andrew in August 2013 at the age of 21. Soon afterwards, he started writing about his experiences, and how his friends and family interacted with him and how they saw the bereavement process—which is much different than reality.This book is a compilation of these writings about his personal experiences after the loss. They...
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    22,85 €

  • Never Forget Andrew
    Perry Grosser
    Perry started writing after the sudden loss of his son, Andrew in August 2013 at the age of 21. Soon afterwards, he started writing about his experiences, and how his friends and family interacted with him and how they saw the bereavement process—which is much different than reality.This book is a compilation of these writings about his personal experiences after the loss. They...
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    30,38 €

  • The Black Box
    Malcolm MacPherson
    Readers join desperate pilots in the cockpit as they fight gravity and time in a plane that’s falling out of the sky. ...
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    15,80 €

  • Clergy Retirement
    Daniel A. Roberts / Daniel ARoberts / Michael Freidman
    In 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, colleagues, and a career, it is equally important, as in any other loss, to take time to grieve aernd then to discover new meaning in life through which to reinvent oneself and grow to ...
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    24,81 €

  • Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty
    Ralph Thomas Kam
    The bones of Hawaii’s King Kamehameha the Great were hidden at night in a secret location. In contrast, his successor Kamehameha III had a half-mile-long funeral procession to the Royal Tomb watched by thousands. Drawing on missionary journals, government publications and Hawaiian and English language newspapers, this book describes changes in funerary practices for Hawaiian ro...
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    57,36 €

  • Permission To Die
    Eric Kramer / Kellie L Kintz / Stuart Bagatell
    How does a conversation begin about a topic that we can’t talk about—that no one really talks about? Where is the jumping off point to cut through the intellectual definitions and the sterile antiseptic medical terminology to reach a place in which real words, experiences and feelings can be used to speak about the unspeakable? Who has the capability, the depth of experience, t...
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    11,08 €

  • Never Long Enough, Hardcover Edition
    Rabbi Joseph H. Krakoff / Rabbi Joseph HKrakoff
    In creating Never Long Enough - a unique book about the end of life, Rabbi Joseph H. Krakoff and artist Dr. Michelle Y. Sider brought together their many years of professional expertise with families. Krakoff drew on lessons learned in many years of counseling adults and children wrestling with death, grief and remembrance. Sider’s years working as an artist, arts educator and ...
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    37,10 €

  • Making Peace with the End of Life
    Dr Patrick Fitzgerald / SARAH RAYNER
    ‘Beautifully written – very gentle, personal and not at all frightening – a great resource for both patients and professionals when reassurance is needed.’  Doreen O’Hara, COPD Specialist Nurse‘A very helpful gathering of advice, support and information for the huge majority who don’t know how to navigate the system.’ Dr Rachel Sheils, Consultant in Palliative MedicineFrom GP a...
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    9,28 €

  • American Mourning
    Simon Stow
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    132,94 €

  • When Family Calls
    Caroline H Sheppard
    Long Distance Caregiving can be challenging—and one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. No one is ever fully prepared to help a family member through a difficult illness, and aging issues, let alone prepare their loved ones for death. In today’s world many are called upon to help from afar—children, nieces or nephews, siblings and even friends. There are many “how t...
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    21,67 €

  • The Final Choice
    Michael Grosso
    Note: This revised edition was first published under the title The Final Choice: Playing the Survival Game.These are dangerous times and history seems to be accelerating—toward what? It’s starting to look like a big crash. No, not a clash of civilizations but civilization itself crashing.There are world trends propelling us towards doomsday: the lunacy of nuclear brinkmanship, ...
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    18,79 €

  • Real Life Diaries
    Brian Van Heck / Lynda Cheldelin Fell
    Dead bodies. Crying families. Middle of the night calls. These are just a few of the things funeral directors deal with as part of life’s calling. What inspires someone to choose a career in the funeral profession? What do they love about their job? How do they really feel when handling dead bodies?In Through the Eyes of a Funeral Director, seventeen funeral directors and embal...
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    11,97 €

  • Living Before Dying
    Janette Davies
    This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia. How residents interact with care assistants is emphasised, as are the different behaviours of men and women observed during a year of daily conversations between the ...
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    184,63 €

  • Letter to My Father
    G Thomas Couser / G. Thomas Couser / GThomas Couser
    Having wounded his father with a devastating letter when he was twenty-three and felt somewhat responsible for his subsequent mental collapse, the author reexamines his father’s life using documents found after his death to reflect on their relationship and reach a reconciliation with a man he had not really known. ...
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    40,48 €

  • American Mourning
    Simon Stow
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    28,55 €

  • Electronic Contact with the Dead
    Anabela Cardoso
    Electronic Contact with the Dead: What do the Voices Tell Us? is the culmination of twenty years of research into Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC), by Anabela Cardoso, a career diplomat and the editor of itcjournal.org. ITC is the phenomena whereby allegedly deceased communicators relay messages and images to the living via radio equipment, televisions, computers, answerph...
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    16,36 €

  • Facing Death
    Nelson P Miller
    This book, drawing from over one-hundred other sources, takes a frank but hopeful look at death, in chapters on death and science, medicine, consciousness, art, music, culture, law, history, philosophy, and religion, with concluding chapters on death defeated and resurrected life.  The book includes vignettes illustrating how individuals and communities may most constructively ...
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    25,56 €

  • Angelic Attendants
    Julie Ryan
    For 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 angels, multitudes of deceased family and friends, the spirits of deceased pets, and countless serendipitous (and miraculous) moments that are all part of a prescribed series of even...
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    10,52 €

  • Our Dead - A Sermon
    Joseph ASeiss / Joseph Augustus Seiss
    'Our Dead' is a wonderful and moving sermon written by Joseph A. Seiss. Joseph Augustus Seiss (March 18, 1823 - June 20, 1904) was an American theologian and Lutheran minister most famous for his contributions to pyramidology and dispensationalism. His best-known work is 'The Great Pyramid of Egypt, Miracle in Stone: Secrets and Advanced Knowledge' (1877), considered a primary ...
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    18,04 €

  • Human remains and identification
    A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. ...
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    50,40 €

  • What will I wear to your funeral?
    Kellie Curtain
    ‘Put your lipstick on, begin the day. It will start without you anyway.’       ‘What will I wear to your funeral?’ ‘And how do I look after your orchid?’ Kellie wanted to ask her mother so many questions while she still could. When you don’t go a day without speaking to someone you love, how do you say goodbye forever? It didn’t bear thinking about.  When Pamela Curtain is diag...
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    13,70 €


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