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  • 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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    15,76 €

  • 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 €

  • Smiles Across the Miles
    Ron Trentham
    Smiles Across the Miles tells the unforgettable true story of Mary Louise Eiman, a woman who endured pain, trauma, and heartbreak most people could never imagine. From a childhood lost in the foster care system to her final days in hospice, Mary built something that mattered. A life full of love, purpose, and connection.She was abandoned before her first birthday, passed from o...
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    18,22 €

  • 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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    154,39 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    40,00 €

  • 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 €

  • Necropolitics of the Ordinary
    Ruth E. Toulson
    Can a state make its people forget the dead?Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, the government has ordered the destruction of all but one burial ground, forcing people to exhume their family members. In this ethnography of Chinese funeral parlors and cemet...
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    158,52 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    20,05 €

  • Life Cycle in the Natural Sciences and Traditional Cultures as a Complex System Self-Organization
    Andriy Y. Morozov / Nver M. Mkhitaryan / Yury N. Kovalyov
    Throughout history, humanity has grappled with how to face the inevitability of death. Today, this struggle takes many forms, from efforts to extend life through medical and technological advances to the fascination with apocalyptic imagery in popular culture. To move beyond these ideas and explore new possibilities, we must seek precise knowledge across fields such as cosmolog...
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    426,18 €

  • Life Cycle in the Natural Sciences and Traditional Cultures as a Complex System Self-Organization
    Andriy Y. Morozov / Nver M. Mkhitaryan / Yury N. Kovalyov
    Throughout history, humanity has grappled with how to face the inevitability of death. Today, this struggle takes many forms, from efforts to extend life through medical and technological advances to the fascination with apocalyptic imagery in popular culture. To move beyond these ideas and explore new possibilities, we must seek precise knowledge across fields such as cosmolog...
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    321,13 €

  • Post-Mortem Existence Within the Complex Systems Self-Organization Theory Framework and in Traditional Cultures
    Andriy Y. Morozov / Nver M. Mkhitaryan / Yury N. Kovalyov
    Exploring ideas of post-mortem existence through the lenses of complex systems and traditional cultural perspectives offers a deeper understanding about life, death, and the existence beyond. Self-organization theory provides a framework for examining how cultural systems evolve and adapt new concepts of post-mortem states, where individual consciousness and collective memory c...
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    308,11 €

  • Post-Mortem Existence Within the Complex Systems Self-Organization Theory Framework and in Traditional Cultures
    Andriy Y. Morozov / Nver M. Mkhitaryan / Yury N. Kovalyov
    Exploring ideas of post-mortem existence through the lenses of complex systems and traditional cultural perspectives offers a deeper understanding about life, death, and the existence beyond. Self-organization theory provides a framework for examining how cultural systems evolve and adapt new concepts of post-mortem states, where individual consciousness and collective memory c...
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    235,73 €

  • JUST TELL THEM I LOVE THEM
    Helen Burke
    What does the end of life teach us about living well now? How can significant threshold moments in our own lives catapult us into richer, more meaningful lives?Threshold experiences can come as moments or seasons, presenting as opportunities for personal and spiritual transformation. Expanded awareness, illness, joy, grief, or coming together at broken open times can call us to...
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    16,12 €

  • The Future of Dark Tourism
    This book offers critical scenarios of dark tourism futures and how our significant dead will be remembered in future visitor economies. It outlines key features of difficult heritage and future cultural trauma and highlights the role of technology, immersive visitor experiences and the thanatological condition of future dark tourism. ...
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    67,36 €

  • The Future of Dark Tourism
    This book offers critical scenarios of dark tourism futures and how our significant dead will be remembered in future visitor economies. It outlines key features of difficult heritage and future cultural trauma and highlights the role of technology, immersive visitor experiences and the thanatological condition of future dark tourism. ...
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    181,28 €

  • 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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    241,75 €

  • Religion, Death and the Senses
    Jasmine Hazel Shadrack
    This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore 6 physical and 3 socio-cultural senses in relation to death and dying: the senses of sight, of smell, of sound, of taste, of touch, of movement, of decency, of humour, and of loss.Each sense section comprises two chapters to provide differing examples of how death and dying can be viewed through the...
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    128,87 €

  • Religion, Death and the Senses
    This collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore six physical and three socio-cultural senses in relation to death and dying: the senses of sight, of smell, of sound, of taste, of touch, of movement, of decency, of humour and of loss. Each sense section comprises two chapters to provide differing examples of how death and dying can be viewed through the le...
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    40,40 €

  • 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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    227,55 €

  • Lay Me in God’s Good Earth
    Beth Hoeltke / Kent Burreson
    Current burial practices in the West fail to confront us with the reality of death and make it harder to grieve properly. Burreson and Hoeltke argue that natural burial offers a more accurate picture of Christian hope and resurrection. This immensely practical guide is also an application of the hope of the resurrection to those grieving. ...
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    22,20 €

  • American Body Snatchers
    Richard S. Ross
    At the beginning of the 19th century, physicians teaching anatomy in New England medical schools expected students to have hands-on experience with cadavers. As the only bodies that could be dissected legally were convicted murderers, this led to a lack of sufficient bodies for study. These doctors and their students turned to removing the dead from graveyards and cemeteries...
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    73,24 €

  • Politicising and gendering care for older people
    This book offers a new critical framework for understanding the processes of politicising and gendering care for older people and their manifestations in different European contexts. It contributes to an in-depth comprehension of how it becomes an arena of political struggle and the object of public policy at various societal and political levels. ...
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    169,63 €

  • Inheritance and the Right to Bequeath
    This book addresses the nature, social function, ethics and politics of the right to bequeath. ...
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    73,27 €

  • 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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    186,58 €

  • Near-Death Experiences
    Jim Willis
    Thousands, perhaps millions, of people have had near-death experiences (NDEs). Why do so many report uncannily similar experiences? What are they-a simple trick of the mind and body or something more? What are we to make of them, and do they tell us anything about the possibility of an afterlife? An illuminating and thought-provoking journey into the enigmatic territory where ...
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    47,92 €