Sociology: death and dying Books

""Not Lost, But Gone Before: Voices Of The Departed"" is a book published in 1869 by an anonymous author. The book is a collection of stories and personal accounts of individuals who have passed away, as told by their loved ones. The author aims to...

Das Buch ""Der Selbstmord Insbesondere Anstiftung Und Beihilfe Zum Selbstmord"" von Viktor Wellauer wurde im Jahr 1896 ver������ffentlicht. Es befasst sich mit dem Thema Selbstmord und insbesondere mit der Anstiftung und Beihilfe zum Selbstmord. Der...

Matthew Stanley Quay, Late A Senator From Pennsylvania: Memorial Addresses is a book that contains speeches given by members of the United States Congress in honor of Matthew Stanley Quay, a senator from Pennsylvania who passed away in 1904. The book...

Culture, Consolation, and Continuing Bonds in Bereavement presents Dennis Klass's most important contributions to the scholarship of grief and bereavement. Journal articles, book chapters, and previously unpublished works cover more than 40 years of...

Suicide hurts people.People commit suicide as a last resort, no one wants to commit suicide and myths surround suicide.Psychologists know the truth about suicide. What causes it, how to prevent it, the warning signs and more.Tackling this difficult...

Reports and studies of near-death experiences, death-bed communications, after-death communications and a host of other transpersonal experiences occurring near death are creating a new paradigm challenging our exclusive biological and psychological...

What do you do when someone you love has taken their own life? You have entered a whole new world that you did not choose to enter and where you feel confused and alone. This book not only will help guide survivors of suicide through the very difficult...

2023 IPNE Award Winner, Narrative Nonfiction2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist, Health (Adult Nonfiction)2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist5-Star Readers' FavoriteWhat do you do when your reality slips away? If you're Sky Yardley and Jane Dwinell,...

Teen Suicide: The Raw Truth, educates teens, parents, peers and teachers. It expresses on the major stressors on why children commit suicide, while expressing how parents, peers and teachers can help a child in need. Suicide is hitting the homes of many...

Il libro ""Del Suicidio Massime In Italia Nel Quinquennio, 1866-1870"" ����� stato scritto da Romeo Taverni e pubblicato nel 1873. Questo testo tratta delle statistiche riguardanti il suicidio in Italia durante il quinquennio 1866-1870, analizzando le...

Il libro ""Del Commendatore Avv. Prof. Giuseppe Nicoli: Cenni Necrologici (1884)"" scritto da Giovanni Bianchi ����� una raccolta di cenni biografici sulla vita e sulla morte del commendatore Giuseppe Nicoli, avvocato e professore italiano del XIX secolo...

This volume examines the range of responses to Margaret Thatcher's death in relation to the cultural discourses surrounding Thatcher in the 1980s and since her resignation. The responses examined include the anticipation of Thatcher's death in...

This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of...

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...

There is no better time to read a story to a friend or a loved one than when they are leaving this body and making their transition into the next Life. It is a time that can frighten us or fill us with sadness for our impending loss. If we can fill our...

A noble profession, the funeral industry is known for its strong sense of decorum, compassion, empathy, and common sense. Such a busy profession leaves little time for self-care. Yet, when funeral professionals are unable to refuel between families and...

A review of internationally peer-reviewed suicide research published each year since 2009, this remarkable resource serves as a handy pocket reference designed to make suicide research more approachable to non-specialists at the professional level.

Tired of suffering from been depressed? This fast, easy read is an excellent guide if you want to feel healthful and happy. During the past decade, depression rates has skyrocketed, and one in four of people around the globe have problems with major...

Das Buch ""Beitr�����ge zur �����rztlichen Topographie Wiens: Mit besonderer Ber�����cksichtigung der Mortalit�����t im Jahr 1862"" von M. Glatter wurde im Jahr 1864 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine medizinische Studie �����ber die Stadt...

Ever curious about the lives of those who came before us, editor John Potter Briscoe has brought together a collection of epitaphs from throughout history. From the poignant to the humorous, these inscriptions reveal not only the customs and sentiments...

A father's odyssey. A mother's secret. A son's story. Wilber's War chronicles, in one volume, the story of two ordinary Americans, Wilber and Norma Bradt, during an extraordinary time, World War II. It offers fresh insight---deeply...

For most of us, dying is an unpleasant event that will happen in the distant future. For others, that future is now. Dealing with dying, either when facing one's own death or as a spectator, is an almost impossible task. Modern society has made death the...

Journey Home is a set of essays about living and dying with an open heart. While many of us fear death and dying, these essays argue that embracing life and death can help us reclaim a richness we’re denied in a death-phobic culture. What’s...

Perspectives on a Young Woman's Suicide is a unique and updated analysis of a diary left behind by "Katie," a young woman who took her own life. By drawing on clinicians, researchers, survivors of suicide loss, and those closest to Katie, this book...

Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy' of one hundred suicides that explores what can be...

Suicide is a perplexing human behavior that remains among the leading causes of death worldwide, responsible for more deaths each year than all wars, genocide, and homicide combined. Although suicide and other forms of self-injury have baffled scholars...

Paul William Schmidt's stepmother, Mary Lou, intentionally chose to end her life and asked him and his father to stay by her side during her last forty-four days. In this poignant and insightful book, the author takes you on a transformative journey...

This project began as an investigation into the high rate of suicide among members of the Coast Guard in comparison to other branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. The course of research revealed Coast Guard officials' chronic reluctance to disclose...

Edith Nesbit is possibly most well known as a celebrated children's author, but she also wrote fantastic ghost and horror short stories.

This book is the first and only comprehensive work designed and written for organizations that may face the daunting task of notifying and supporting families if a person dies, is seriously injured or is missing. The book is highly useful for companies,...

Making plans to end your life?Does a sense of hopelessness overwhelm every fiber of your being? Deep down you do not want to die but you are saying to yourself, "I cannot continue to live like this." You can have hope again! Hope for surviving your...

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There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media explores the discomfort and fascination initiated by instances of pain and suffering, their 'aversive...

Using a qualitative, interview-based approach, Kim investigates how conflicting identities and social marginalization affect the mental health of members of the ethnic Korean minority living in Japan. So-called "Zainichi" Koreans living in Japan have a...

THE FREEHOF INSTITUTE OF PROGRESSIVE HALAKHAHThe Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah is a creative research center devoted to studying and defining the progressive character of the halakhah in accordance with the principles and theology of Reform...

This book presents Dr Syme's views on the plight of people with dementia, and his suggestion for further legislative change. The book's title reflects a life that has been long, and where all that was possible has been achieved - and so is in a sense...

True account of a powerful story about a special needs boy and the remarkable "gifts" he left behind. Foreword by Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump.

Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897, is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method. This book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's methodology. The...

In der Trauer ist es oft schwierig, den Blick zu weiten, die Gedanken fließen zu lassen.Durch veränderte Gedanke in der Trauer darf Ihr Alltag etwas leichter werden und neue Wege dürfen sich für Sie öffnen.Ein Buch, das Mut machen soll, diesen neuen...

This is a personal, poetic exploration of what it means for a son to care for his father in his final year of life, and what then arises after death has come, and the caring period has ended. After his father was diagnosed with terminal brain...

Are you ready to discover what lies beyond the ordinary experience of grief?Sacred Grief offers an intriguing exploration of the far-reaching rippleeffect of our present-day opinions about surviving grief's emotionalroller-coaster and the unnecessary...

In Coming to Terms, A. Emerson Wiens writes from the heart and the mind in understandable language. His goal is to express ideas in ways that are clearly stated and capture the reader's imagination. His writings range from topics that are light...

Il libro ""Le Leggi Statistiche Del Suicidio Secondo Gli Ultimi Documenti, 1879-1885"" ����� stato scritto da Enrico Morselli nel 1885. Questo testo ����� una raccolta di dati statistici riguardanti il fenomeno del suicidio in Italia, basati sui...

This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focuses on Underworld to The Silence, along with his 1984 novel White Noise, in which the fear of death dominates the protagonists most hauntingly. The study...

In this forward-thinking work, the author explores the future of burial practices and the rising popularity of cremation and urn-burial. With thoughtful reflections on the cultural and spiritual significance of death and burial, this book offers readers...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...