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  • Never Long Enough, Premium 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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    38,13 €

  • Heaven Knows
    Sandy Coghlan
    In times of grief, fear or despair, haven’t most of us asked: “is there really an afterlife?”When my mother became seriously ill in 1987, I sat on my back doorstep night after night and asked the universe that question. I doubted anyone was listening, yet strangely, my life began to change. Books and people mysteriously found their way to me.  Sometimes, events occurred that I ...
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    16,44 €

  • Peaceful Breeze
    Mark Carrington
    Caring for someone you love who is suffering from a terminal illness can be one of the greatest honours in life. Helping a loved one to die with peace, grace and dignity is their human right and a privilege for their carer to enable. It can be a truly transformative experience. In Peaceful Breeze Mark Carrington shares his searingly honest account of nursing his much-loved mot...
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    8,77 €

  • No More Gun Violence
    David Y Weiss
    Are we headed to doomsday or resurrection? Gun violence is an epidemic that will not go away, infect it will intensify with vengeance that we never experienced before; it is not a prophecy it is a fact of life! Culture, political and economic in-equalities will widen the gap between rich and poor that will result in unexpected rifts and conflicts that in turn will result in unc...
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    16,05 €

  • Never Long Enough (paperback)
    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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    28,72 €

  • Saying Those Final Goodbyes! Funeral Guest Register
    @Journals Notebooks
    Saying your final goodbye to a person you hold dear is never easy but if you are in the company of your family and friends, the grief would be much more bearable. This Funeral Guest Register is designed so that those who pay their last respects can leave valuable messages that will make you feel better soon. Use this register today. ...
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    15,06 €

  • Grief Diaries
    Amelia Joubert / Denise Purcell / Lynda Cheldelin Fell
    "Grief Diaries: Through the Eyes of DID" is a groundbreaking book that takes readers inside the lives of 17 people who live with dissociative identity disorder. The tales are disturbing from beginning to end, yet amid deep stigma and controversy, each writer bravely reveals their hidden inner world including struggles, fears, and hopes—and boldly exposes what it’s like to share...
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    12,97 €

  • Power of Death
    The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an int...
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    44,43 €

  • Grief Diaries
    David Allan Jones / Lynda Cheldelin Fell / Stephen Hochhaus
    Grief Diaries: Through the Eyes of Men offers a unique glimpse into the different styles of grieving as seen through the eyes of 14 men. From the very moment their lives were changed, real men share their hearts, their intimacy, and their families. The grief journey is followed all the way to where they have figured out what it means to them, and their lives, for their love to ...
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    11,34 €

  • Passing On
    `Joanna Romer
    Existence makes sense only if we include the afterlife as part of our history.  Scientists are exploring the concept that life, including what is called the afterlife, may not be as we perceive it. New discoveries having to do with the simultaneous nature of time and the relativity of space coincide dramatically with the testimony of Near-Death Experience (NDE) survivors. The ...
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    14,85 €

  • Life Cannot Live Without Death & Death Cannot Live Without Life
    Ayin M. Adams
    Life Cannot Live Without Death and Death Cannot Live Without Life endeavors to show the continuity of life from the womb to the tomb and back again. It is spiritual poetry written against the shifting clouds. This spiritual book is the higher understanding of the belief that life has no beginning and no ending. This book allows us the wisdom and grace that we can hold on to whe...
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    16,93 €

  • The Grieving Parents Club
    Kelly Barbour-Conerty
    Like millions of other parents, Kelly Barbour-Conerty was living a normal life, spending time with her daughters, watching them grow up and making plans for their futures. Then, in the blink of an eye, along with the screeching of tires and the crushing of a metal car frame, that normality came to a sudden and horrific end. Her 16 year-old daughter, Lexi, was killed in a car cr...
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    15,90 €

  • Running My Race
    David Alan Black
    This book is the story of my existence — a meandering spiritual voyage through the beautiful loud crazy called life. -- Dr. David Alan BlackWith his usual frank but gentleman-farmer honesty, Dave Black shares his reflections on his life, as he has shared it with hundreds every day through daveblackonline. Since November 2013 when his beloved Becky Lynn, wife of 37 years, went o...
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    13,54 €

  • The Kind of Old Man I Want to Be
    Jack Chalk
    If you are middle age and beyond, you need to think about the kind of old person you will be because you will be one before you know it. The time to start is now, well before you reach 65 years of age. If you are already 65 or over it is not too late to change. Every day 10,000 people in the US turn 65. They may have plans for doing things, but most are without a paradigm for ...
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    8,58 €

  • Governing the dead
    Finn Stepputat
    Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume suggests that the management of dead bodies is related to the constitution and membership of states and non-state entities that claim autonomy and impunity. This volume is a significant contribution to studies of death, power and politics. ...
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    33,13 €

  • Mortuary Dialogues
    Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations. The book's key concept, 'mortuary dialogue,' describes the diffe...
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    204,95 €

  • Musical Morphine
    Robin Russell Gaiser
    Robin 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 psychological -- she began to share her stories with friends and colleagues in music and medicine. This book is the result. ...
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    12,85 €

  • Death
    Dr. Munir A. Cheema
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    23,68 €

  • Death
    Dr. Munir A. Cheema
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    32,08 €

  • Launching Vee's Chariot
    Kate Riley
    Dying a good death is Vee Riley's final wish, and she believes a good death is a conscious death. In the grip of end-stage cancer, she decides how she will interact with her deteriorating physical condition, while letting go of family and friends, her home, and her independence. For most of her life, Vee pursued a daily spiritual practice that included artwork, writing, meditat...
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    8,87 €

  • Love in the Afterlife
    Richard Striner
    This is a definitive study of films that have been built around the themes of love, death, and the afterlife-films about lovers who meet again (and love again) in heaven, via reincarnation, or through other kinds of after-death encounters. Far more than books about mere ghosts in the movies or religion in movies, Love in the Afterlife presents a complex but highly distinctive...
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    100,19 €

  • Rue Rilke
    Daniel Joseph Polikoff
    Travelogue, literary autobiography, and journalistic exposé of the mores of capital punishment, Rue Rilke chronicles its author's initiatory Rilke pilgrimage to France and Switzerland and-upon his return to America-his up-close involvement in death penalty politics. Immersed in the legal and human drama unfolding in Houston in the days leading up to an impending execution, the ...
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    102,42 €

  • Nudges from Grandfather
    Chris Kavelin
    In 1938 the German Reich inflicted a wave of violent, all night attacks on several Jewish communities (Kristallnacht). Far away in Australia, William Cooper, a distinguished Elder of the Yorta Yorta Nation, led a little-known march to the German Consulate to deliver his letter protesting the violation of those human rights.How contemporary Jewish and Aboriginal communities re-c...
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    22,12 €

  • Choosing How We Die
    June WLamb
    Choosing How We Die compels the reader to see his or her own journey through the dying process as something we can only consider when we are healthy and as a gift to those we leave behind after we are physically dead. These true stories of four people who made the choice of facing their own death and communicating their wishes clearly to their loved ones as they carried them...
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    6,45 €

  • Living with a Dead Man
    Marianne Bette M.D.
    Sitting in an oncologist’s waiting room is one of life’s more sobering experiences. The first thing that hit her was that she was there, not as a doctor, but as a cancer patient’s wife. It didn’t matter that Marianne was a family practitioner, or that her husband, Thom, was a death and dying therapist. Cancer, and all that went with it, had found them.This story shares their jo...
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    17,39 €

  • Summerlands
    John Awen
    John has often been around death, and has experienced near death several times himself Whilst having one of these experiences he had a life changing moment, which moved him to his Pagan beliefs and spirituality as a way of life. His life changed for the better since finding the inner peace which this brought him. It is from his own beliefs that has come this introduction and ...
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    17,93 €

  • Rue Rilke
    Daniel Joseph Polikoff
    Travelogue, literary autobiography, and journalistic exposé of the mores of capital punishment, Rue Rilke chronicles its author's initiatory Rilke pilgrimage to France and Switzerland and-upon his return to America-his up-close involvement in death penalty politics. Immersed in the legal and human drama unfolding in Houston in the days leading up to an impending execution, t...
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    35,73 €

  • Legal Executions in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri
    Daniel Allen Hearn
    In the five state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri, 1027 men and women are known to have been legally hanged, gassed or electrocuted for capital crimes during the century after the Civil War. Drawing on thousands of hours of research, this comprehensive record covers each execution in chronological order, filling numerous gaps in a largely forgotten stor...
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    94,07 €

  • Inner Eye, Listening Ear
    Paul Beard
    As a long-standing member of the Society for Psychical Research and President of the College for Psychic Studies, Paul Beard was an authority on psychical research and in particular the study of life after death. He wrote numerous books on the subject including his trilogy, Survival Of Death, Living On, and Hidden Man, followed by Inner Eye, Listening Ear. During his lifetime ...
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    14,39 €

  • Living On
    Paul Beard
    As a long-standing member of the Society for Psychical Research and President of the College for Psychic Studies, Paul Beard was an authority on psychical research and in particular the study of life after death. He wrote numerous books on the subject including his trilogy, Survival Of Death, Living On, and Hidden Man, followed by Inner Eye, Listening Ear. During his lifetime ...
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    15,13 €